Logwatch: how to suppress the exim section?

Adam Funk a24061 at ducksburg.com
Fri Jun 8 09:50:28 UTC 2007


> On 06/06/07, Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>> I've installed logwatch and read the documentation.  I see how to
>> override in /etc/logwatch/ the default settings in
>> /usr/share/logwatch/, but I'd like to know how to completely suppress
>> the exim section (since I already get a report from eximstats) without
>> altering the contents of /usr/share/logwatch/.

On 2007-06-06, Brian McKee wrote:
> I don't know what the official answer is - but if you
> mv /etc/log.d/conf/services/exim.conf /etc/log.d/conf/services/exim.conf.orig
> it won't show up anymore...

I think I've figured it out; creating /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
with these two lines
~~~~~
Service = "-exim"
Service = "-eximstats"
~~~~~
seems to have the effect I want.





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