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JayBaen
07-20-2006, 07:23 AM
Until recently (last update? 2.1.3?), any manually added cron jobs for SiteWorx accounts (non-IWorx) used to announce themselves as having executed in the next morning's LogWatch. That's not happening anymore (unless, of course, the jobs just aren't running - which isn't the case as far as I can tell).

Did something change with the reporting of Cron jobs via the LogWatch?

JB
IWorx-Chris
07-20-2006, 10:33 AM
JB, logwatch is just a tool bundled with many distros and we don't touch it whatsoever. Maybe it was updated at some point by the distro and that changed the default settings?

Chrsi
JayBaen
07-20-2006, 12:13 PM
Maybe. Just fishing for thoughts, really.

I know that at one point, in regards to the LogWatch reporting for the vpopmail application, the implementation IWorx used in one release created a different output in the logwatch than another point release (e.g. one release showing every authentication request to popmail, and another not showing them).

I wasn't sure if there was some manipulation similar with the handling of cron job reporting between recent point releases or not.

I'll keep hunting.

JB
IWorx-Chris
07-20-2006, 12:18 PM
I'd definitely check the YUM log and check to see if /etc/cron.daily/logwatch (or somethnig similar) exists.

Chris
JayBaen
07-20-2006, 08:09 PM
Well, on in the Yum.log I'm seeing the following:

Jul 13 13:33:11 Updated: vixie-cron.i386 4:4.1-44.EL4

... might this be the culprit for the change?

JB
IWorx-Chris
07-23-2006, 04:39 PM
Doubtufl, it seems like more of a logwatch specific issue (like some config change in logwatch). How were the accounts "announced"? Via an /etc/passwd change?

Chris
JayBaen
07-24-2006, 08:37 AM
oops - poor description on my part.

An existing SiteWorx account creates a cron job. The next (and subsequent) morning's LogWatch lists ('announces') that that job (and any other non-IWorx ones) executed.

At least, that's what used to happen. It was nice to get that listing of cron executions, even if only as a reminder of the current jobs on the box.

JB
IWorx-Tim
07-30-2006, 09:12 PM
what version of logwatch are you running?
JayBaen
07-31-2006, 06:21 AM
################### LogWatch 5.2.2 (06/23/04) ####################
Processing Initiated: Mon Jul 31 04:02:02 2006
Date Range Processed: yesterday
Detail Level of Output: 0

JB
IWorx-Tim
08-01-2006, 11:21 AM
Take a look around the config file maybe?

/etc/log.d/conf/logwatch.conf

I'm running the same version.