Re: [fedora-list] How to add a new section in logwatch report

2010-12-08 Thread Donald Russell
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:05, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:46:10 -0800 > Donald Russell wrote: > > > Now that I've actually done it once, it seems pretty simple... so why did > it > > appear so complicated in the doc? hmmm. > > Well, what gets me (and still does I think) is the utte

Re: [fedora-list] How to add a new section in logwatch report

2010-12-07 Thread Tom Horsley
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:46:10 -0800 Donald Russell wrote: > Now that I've actually done it once, it seems pretty simple... so why did it > appear so complicated in the doc? hmmm. Well, what gets me (and still does I think) is the utter inability to guess which logfiles get processed for which servi

Re: [fedora-list] How to add a new section in logwatch report

2010-12-07 Thread Donald Russell
--- Hey! Hey! You! You! Get off of my cloud! http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002423-38.html On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 14:25, Rich Mahn wrote: > Donald Russell wrote: > > >I have an application that uses the logger -t command to add > >specific messages in /var/log/messages. I'd like

Re: [fedora-list] How to add a new section in logwatch report

2010-12-06 Thread Rich Mahn
Donald Russell wrote: >I have an application that uses the logger -t command to add >specific messages in /var/log/messages. I'd like to add those in a >section of it's own in the logwatch report but am having trouble >following the information in /usr/share/doc/logwatch-7.3 in t

Re: How to add a new section in logwatch report

2010-12-03 Thread Tom Horsley
On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 09:34:35 -0800 Donald Russell wrote: > What did I miss? You certainly didn't miss anything in the docs, because it is just impossible to figure them out. I have tried to follow the perl code to figure out what is actually going on and it is too impenetrable for me to understand

How to add a new section in logwatch report

2010-12-03 Thread Donald Russell
I have an application that uses the logger -t command to add specific messages in /var/log/messages. I'd like to add those in a section of it's own in the logwatch report but am having trouble following the information in /usr/share/doc/logwatch-7.3 in the HOWTO doc. I added my new script/filter