-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chris Lieb wrote: > Chris Lieb wrote: >> I have recently setup logwatch-7.3.2 on a few of my machines along with >> sendmail. For all but one of the machines, I get emails that have the >> hostname in the subject line (Logwatch for capitol (Linux)) as well as >> on the line that reads 'Logfiles for Host' (Logfiles for Host: capitol). > >> However, on one machine, the hostname is not resolved correctly. The >> email has the subject line 'Logwatch for 10 (Linux)' and in the body of >> the email has 'Logfiles for Host: 10'. The IP address of this machine >> is 10.192.202.xxx, and the hostname is high. > >> When I do a `hostname -va` on high, I get: >> gethostname()=`high' >> Resolving `high' ... >> Result: h_name=`high.opcdir.intranet' >> Result: h_aliases=`high' >> Result: h_aliases=`localhost' >> Result: h_addr_list=`127.0.0.1' >> high localhost >> When I run the same command on congress, which has a working logwatch, I >> get: >> gethostname()=`congress' >> Resolving `congress' ... >> Result: h_name=`congress.opcdir.intranet' >> Result: h_aliases=`congress' >> Result: h_aliases=`localhost' >> Result: h_addr_list=`127.0.0.1' >> congress localhost >> This seems to me to eliminate the possibility of a misconfigured >> hostname on high. > >> Does anyone have an idea as to what is causing logwatch to not resolve >> the hostname correctly? > >> Thanks, >> Chris Lieb > > I believe I've found the problem! There is a hash called %swordsmen > that defines a pair of 'high => 10'. It appears that a function is > calling getInt, which uses %wordsToInts to process hostname, turning my > hostname of 'high' into '10'. > > I'm going to play around with it some more to see if this is the case.
It ends up that was the issue. I have opened bug 260524 on Gentoo Bugzilla that includes a patch and a -r1 ebuild for 7.3.6, which went stable yesterday. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJJqBF5AAoJEJWxx7fgsD+CY1AIAKFqDK3e49MuiLlcgJYMHmRU Mm09ijk6JECqGjLzfyFbnlhIItKX5njS/NGu8Ki9mr53LTc3A0M08MGEbeg2TJl6 XZPzR/DM/5x9EWZn6uIVxY3mLo/G4xTj1EOWH/aGpQN7uDDQFNjq27gnkfs3V2VB gNLxN1lylSep6u0knIcvdtt90xHyk3TLwgNORn2KgDSEJPmRIz9hpglrNIHganyQ ihl2t1SVTitdyKNyhaj5NcYy9BMJDRjyhgZ+FPBEkW27ekaJUQhP/16VlftQVLjk 62Z0Dz7J7Je0jLh2ldLi1+p/iyNxyKH8IXstmDsrwiMU39mjmtDJn3R8zcKBV6A= =Rq6i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
