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Bug 531524 - app-admin/logcheck uses wrong logfile /var/log/syslog
Summary: app-admin/logcheck uses wrong logfile /var/log/syslog
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Reported: 2014-12-03 11:38 UTC by Marc Schiffbauer
Modified: 2018-04-14 18:57 UTC (History)
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Description Marc Schiffbauer gentoo-dev 2014-12-03 11:38:13 UTC 
Recent versions of rsyslog do not use /var/log/syslog but /var/log/messages instead.

It might be useful to update the default /etc/logcheck/logcheck.logfiles to reflect this change.
This would make it working "out of the box" again.

I do not know the default logfiles of other syslog implementations like syslog-ng though.
Comment 1 Marc Schiffbauer gentoo-dev 2015-03-10 00:53:28 UTC 
PIng?
Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2018-02-05 16:29:47 UTC 
This is still valid with latest version, I will CC syslog-ng maintainer to see if this change to "messages" wouldn't cause breakage for them
Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev 2018-04-14 18:57:46 UTC 
[master f08e0bb82c57] app-admin/logcheck: Handle /var/log/messages (#531524)
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 app-admin/logcheck/logcheck-1.3.18-r1.ebuild