When no logwatch is currently installed, a fresh install creates an empty /etc/logwatch/ directory, instead of putting some default configuration inside. When a version of logwatch is istalled already, a fresh "emerge logwatch" entirely deletes that directory. This happens with sys-apps/logwatch-7.3.2, I'm going to try out the newer versions (marked as testing) as well. my emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2.12 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r4, 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.22-gentoo-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 16:50:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 3.2_p17 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.9-r2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.24 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.21 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ ftp://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/ http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" LINGUAS="en de es" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aac aalib acpi aim alsa apache2 bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts calendar caps cddb cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dga directfb dri dvd emacs encode exif fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif glut gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile iconv icq imagemagick isdnlog java javascript jikes joystick jpeg jpeg2k kdexdeltas lcms leim libcaca libwww lm_sensors mad maildir mbox mcal memlimit midi mime mmx mng mp3 mpeg msn mudflap ncurses neXt nls nocd nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg opengl openmp oscar pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qt4 quicktime readline reflection samba sdl session sndfile sockets sox speex spell spl ssl svg svga tcpd tetex theora threads tiff timidity truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd videos vorbis win32codecs wmf x86 xml xorg xosd xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse aiptek" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en de es" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa vga fbdev nv nvidia" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Same for 7.3.4 and 7.3.6 (the ebuilds differ only in their version numbers and stable flags).
fixed in sys-apps/logwatch-7.3.7_pre20091204
