[Bug 1010602] Re: samba logs are not being reported in logwatch

[Marc Deslauriers]

ACK on the debdiff in comment #9. I've uploaded a package to trusty-
proposed (with a slight version change) for sponsoring by the SRU team.

Thanks!

** Changed in: logwatch (Ubuntu Trusty)
       Status: New => In Progress

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Title:
  samba logs are not being reported in logwatch

Status in logwatch:
  Unknown
Status in logwatch package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in logwatch source package in Trusty:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  After upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 samba logs no longer show up in
  logwatch reports.

  There was a change to /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logfiles/samba.conf between 10.04 and 12.04:
     LogFile=samba/* was changed to LogFile=samba/*.log

  In the samba package the default smb.conf file has logging defined as (no change 10.04-12.04):
     log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m

  Since files are log.* they are no longer parsed by logwatch because
  logwatch only looks for *.log

  
  1. Description:    Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
  Release:        12.04

  2. logwatch:
    Installed: 7.4.0+svn20111221rev79-1ubuntu1
    Candidate: 7.4.0+svn20111221rev79-1ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 7.4.0+svn20111221rev79-1ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  samba:
    Installed: 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.1
    Candidate: 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.2
    Version table:
       2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.2 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main amd64 Packages
   *** 2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2.1 0
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-security/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       2:3.6.3-2ubuntu2 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages

  3. Logwatch reports/emails should contain samba log information.

  4. No samba log information shows up in logwatch reports/emails.

  Possible fix is to distribute the attached samba.conf in /usr/share/logwatch/dist.conf/logfiles/
  It contains "LogFile=samba/*" which would revert logwatch's behavior to what it was in 10.04 for samba logs.
  This will allow any type of log file naming you wish in your samba config in the /var/log/samba/ folder to be correctly parsed by logwatch.

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