Yum and Logwatch Reports

[Arthur Pemberton]

Paul Howarth wrote:

> 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.
>
Could you possibly summarise the manual changes to be made to fix the 
problem?