> On Dec 16, 2024, at 2:57 PM, Michael Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Mike
>
> Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed explanation.
> Unfortunately, dunce that I am, I didn’t understand most of it. I’m just a
> tool user and have little understanding of the code behind the tools that I
> use.
>
> When I see something like this:
>
> reinplace "s|@PREFIX@|${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/scripts/logwatch.pl
>
> My head spins.
>
> Am I supposed to actually do all that stuff that I see when I run port cat
> logwatch?
Apologies. No need to do any of that. Instead ...
> says to override default variables by putting them in the following file:
>
> /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
>
>However, that directory does not exist. So, I'm lost. Do I need to create that
>directory or does the override file go somewhere else?
You'd do this:
sudo mkdir -p /opt/local/etc/logwatch/conf
sudo touch /opt/local/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
Edit that file as root to add your overrides.
