Bug 70507 – logwatch not working if used with range yesterday or today: only works with --range all

• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Federico Agnelli 2004-11-08 14:27:55 UTC]

logwatch gives no output if used with option --range yesterday (or --range today). It works only with range all.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. # emerge logwatch
2. # logwatch.pl --range yesterday --print


Actual Results:  
No output is printed

Expected Results:  
Print logs analysis

The system logger installed is syslog-ng

[Comment 1 Federico Agnelli 2004-11-08 14:35:24 UTC]

In /etc/log.d/scripts/shared/applystddate $SearchDate needs an ucfirst:
$SearchDate = ucfirst($SearchDate);
because syslog-ng creates dates with initial uppercase.
Maybe other config files require the same.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-04-28 18:43:59 UTC]

post a patch for 6.0.2 please

[Comment 3 Sheldon Hearn 2005-06-17 04:37:47 UTC]

Please try logwatch-6.1.2, which contains significant enhancement of the 
--range option.  You can get help for it with: 
 
    logwatch.pl --range help 
 
I've provided an ebuild and patch for logwatch-6.1.2 on bug #96362. 
 
If it works for you, add a comment saying so on that bug, so the committers are 
more likely to look at it. :-) 

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2005-06-17 20:51:37 UTC]

if 6.1.2 still is an issue please send an e-mail to [e-mail]