RHBA-2010:0033 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated logwatch package that fixes various bugs and adds an enhancement
is now available.

Description

LogWatch is a customizable log analysis system. LogWatch parses through
your system's logs for a given period of time and creates a report
analyzing areas that you specify, in as much detail as you require.

This updated logwatch package includes fixes for the following bugs:

• .hdr files are headers for RPM packages; they are essentially metadata.

LogWatch's HTTP service parser emitted warnings for .hdr files, even when
the "Detail" parameter was set to "Low". With this update, .hdr files are
now parsed as archives, which removes spurious warnings about .hdr files.
(BZ#465212)

• the following missing directories have been added under the

/etc/logwatch/scripts/ directory: "logfiles", "services" and "shared". This
mirrors the subdirectory structure of the /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/
directory, and also corresponds to the existing documentation. (BZ#489490)

• LogWatch attempted to interpret certain compressed log files as plain

text log files, which resulted in binary information being written to
LogWatch output. With this update, LogWatch correctly decompresses these
compressed log files before attempting to read and interpret them.
(BZ#511928)

In addition, this updated logwatch package provides the following
enhancement: * LogWatch is now able to parse several new and
previously-unmatched entries in the postfix, dovecot and up2date
application logs. (BZ#460993, BZ#424031, BZ#466455)

All users of logwatch are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues and provides this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 424031 - logwatch ignores dovecot 1.0 log entries
• BZ - 440606 - there should be %{?dist} instead of %{dist} in the *.spec on the Release: line
• BZ - 460993 - logwatch doesn't match some postfix log lines (status code not parsed)
• BZ - 465212 - logwatch "http" script should treat APT .hdr files as "archives" (and not as "other")
• BZ - 466455 - RHBA-2008:0362 causes logwatch to find unmatched entries in /var/log/up2date
• BZ - 489490 - logwatch: missing directories in /etc/logwatch/scripts

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)