Yum and Logwatch Reports

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Apr 7 13:33:21 UTC 2005


Don Maxwell wrote:
> After upgrading from FC2 to FC3 (which was a SMOOTH and easy upgrade)
> my logwatch reports no longer include a section on yum activity.  I
> have compared the old logwatch.conf and yum.conf files, but did not
> catch a difference which might be a factor.
> 
> I choose to let yum automatically install changed rpm files.  Yes, I
> know this can be dangerous, but I prefer the risk of potential
> surprises over the risk of not getting around to manual involvement in
> updates.
> 
> In FC1 and FC2, the "yum" sections were useful so that I could get a
> sense of what changed that showed up in my Tripwire reports.
> 
> Any ideas?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=140429

Until such time as an official update comes out, I'll maintain an 
updated logwatch package that contains Gilles Detillieux's patch to fix 
this bug (see bugzilla entry above) at:

http://www.city-fan.org/ftp/contrib/sysutils/

Cheers, Paul.




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