One of the lines he showed was >> my $ConfigDir = "/opt/local/etc/logwatch";
Together with the prior "re-root" comment, that means instead of copying the file to /etc/logwatch/conf and editing it as desired, it should be put in /opt/local/etc/logwatch/conf. Further consideration of the comments means that almost always, a MacPorts port would put files in /opt/local/etc/... that would normally go in /etc/....; ditto for /opt/local/var vs /var, and so on. Likewise, things that non-MacPorts installs of software that usually installs in /usr/local/... would tend to install in /opt/local/... There might be slight variations or exceptions, but if you check those, you'll usually find the answer.. > On Dec 16, 2024, at 17:57, Michael Newman via macports-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mike > > Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed explanation. > Unfortunately, dunce that I am, I didn’t understand most of it. I’m just a > tool user and have little understanding of the code behind the tools that I > use. > > When I see something like this: > > reinplace "s|@PREFIX@|${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/scripts/logwatch.pl > > My head spins. > > Am I supposed to actually do all that stuff that I see when I run port cat > logwatch? > > Sorry for my ignorance. > > Mike > >> On Dec 16, 2024, at 19:00, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2024 19:04:21 -0800 >> From: Mike Cappella <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> To: [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Logwatch Configuration Override File >> Message-ID: <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> >> >>> On Dec 15, 2024, at 5:48?PM, Michael Newman via macports-users >>> <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> I've been running Logwatch on a Raspberry Pi for some time and learned a >>> lot from it. I decided to install on a Mac (Intel iMac running Sequoia) via >>> MacPorts. >>> >>> The Logwatch configuration file: >>> >>> /opt/local/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf >>> >>> says to override default variables by putting them in the following file: >>> >>> /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf >>> >>> However, that directory does not exist. So, I'm lost. Do I need to create >>> that directory or does the override file go somewhere else? >>> >> >> >> MacPorts doesn't pollute the macOS root, and re-roots everything (it can) >> under /opt/local (by default). >> >> The port file has instructions to patch the downloaded, extracted archive, >> changing the default destination root. You can see the final result in the >> logwatch.pl script. You're trying to discover where some logwatch.conf file >> is located, so grep'ing for that yields: >> >> &ReadConfigFile ("$BaseDir/default.conf/logwatch.conf", ""); >> &ReadConfigFile ("$BaseDir/dist.conf/logwatch.conf", ""); >> &ReadConfigFile ("$ConfigDir/conf/logwatch.conf", ""); >> >> And searching for BaseDir and ConfigDir reveal the answer: >> >> my $BaseDir = "/opt/local/share/logwatch"; >> my $ConfigDir = "/opt/local/etc/logwatch"; >> >> Later you see that it reads from the following config files: >> >> &ReadConfigFile ("$BaseDir/default.conf/logwatch.conf", ""); >> &ReadConfigFile ("$BaseDir/dist.conf/logwatch.conf", ""); >> &ReadConfigFile ("$ConfigDir/conf/logwatch.conf", ""); >> &ReadConfigFile ("$ConfigDir/conf/override.conf", "logwatch"); >> >> The command "port cat" will show the port file: >> >> $ port cat logwatch >> >> And you can see the see the instructions used to patch just before >> installaation. >
