format logwatch reports as html [Solved]

Tue Apr 17 04:31:21 UTC 2007

Tim:
>> Just for the sake of curiosity, what is in that file from
>> the rawhide version?

Claude Jones:
> # cat /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/html/header.html
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 
> Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Logwatch  $Version  ( $VDate )</title>
> <meta name="generator" content="Logwatch  $Version ( $VDate )">
> <style type="text/css">
>   h1 {color: gray; border-bottom: 3px double silver}
>   h2,h3 {color: gray; border-bottom: 1px solid silver}
>   .ref {padding-left: 1%}
>   .service {padding-left: 1%; font-family: Monospace}
>   .return_link {border-top: 1px; border-bottom: 1px;
>   padding: 1%; margin-top: 1%; margin-bottom: 1%;}
>   .copyright {color: black; border-top: 1px solid grey;
>   border-bottom: 1px solid grey;
>   padding: 1%; margin-top: 1%; margin-bottom: 1%;}
> </style>
> </head>
> <body style="width:90%; margin-left: 5%; margin-right: 5%" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
> <hr>
> <!-- End header.html -->
> 
> There's also a footer file in that same folder which is called footer.html
> I'm no coder, however. Writing the above would not have been in my 
> skill-set... 

I dare say that, if you didn't mind a plain HTML output, you could have
gotten away with making your own header file of:

<html><title>logwatch output</title><body>

And a footer file of just: </body></html>

It's been my experience that much of the HTML trickery gets ignored in
mail clients, anyway.  For example, although Evolution supports HTML, it
doesn't seem to care about how it presents it.

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