I have a logwatch issue that makes no sense and need insight into resolving
it.

The default for logwatch is to report on all logs specified in
/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf. But, that does not add a fortune toward
the end as it did on the old server. Adding 'Service = zz-fortune' produced
the notice that when 'Service = All' only subtrations can be specified.

So, I removed 'Service = All' and specified the desired output:

# The 'Service' option expects either the name of a filter (in
# /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/*) or 'All'.  The default service(s)
# to report on.  This should be left as All for most people.
Service = cron
Service = kernel
Service = postfix
Service = sshd
Service = syslogd
Service = xntpd
Service = zz-disk_space
Service = zz-fortune
Service = zz-lm_sensors

Now when I look for 'Service = All' grep returns nothing:

[root@salmo /etc/logwatch]# grep -R "Service = All" *
[root@salmo /etc/logwatch]#

So, why does running logwatch (both from the command line and from
cron.daily) return this mail message:

From [email protected] Sat Oct 26 04:40:04 2019
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 04:40:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: cron for user root /usr/bin/run-parts /etc/cron.daily 1> /dev/null

Wrong configuration entry for "Service", if "All" selected, only "-" items are 
allowed

On what forum might be the most appropriate to ask for help: linuxquestions,
stackexchange, unixcraft, other?

This is the last system issue I need to resolve.

TIA,

Rich
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