Hi,

Done.

=> https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12036

Best,
Matthias

On 01.04.2019 18:34, Michael Tremer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, please open a bug report and we will take it from there.
> 
> Best,
> -Michael
> 
>> On 1 Apr 2019, at 17:28, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> For testing, I changed the conjob for logwatch from to "03 0 * * * " but
>> tonight 'logwatch' did it again:
>> 
>> "No (or only partial) logs exist for the day queried:
>> /var/log/logwatch/2019-03-31 could not be opened."
>> 
>> So it took some time, but the bug still exists.
>> 
>> Any suggestions? I think, I should open a bug report...
>> 
>> Best,
>> Matthias
>> 
>> On 18.02.2019 14:14, Matthias Fischer wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On 18.02.2019 13:38, Michael Tremer wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I do not think that you have two reports in the larger file.
>>>> 
>>>> In the cronjob line the file is being overwritten (>) and not appended (>>).
>>> 
>>> I see.
>>> 
>>>> Is it possible that this conflicts with the logrotate job that is launched at the same time and logwatch tries to read files that are being rotated away?
>>> 
>>> This was my first suspicion. After changing the start time of the
>>> 'logwatch'-job the error did not occur again until now. I'll wait and watch.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Matthias
>>> 
>>>> -Michael
>>>> 
>>>>> On 17 Feb 2019, at 15:01, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 17.02.2019 15:42, Tom Rymes wrote:
>>>>>> Is this a ticking issue where one log has two days’ data and the other is empty?
>>>>> 
>>>>> [Correction:
>>>>> Of course I meant '.../2019-01-26' ;-) ]
>>>>> 
>>>>> Looking an it - could be the case. The log created on 2019-01-28 is
>>>>> significantly bigger:
>>>>> 
>>>>> ***SNIP***
>>>>> ...
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  43698 Jan 24 00:01 2019-01-23
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  56469 Jan 25 00:01 2019-01-24
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  57936 Jan 26 00:01 2019-01-25
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 Jan 27 00:01 2019-01-26
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114650 Jan 28 00:01 2019-01-27
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  40121 Jan 29 00:01 2019-01-28
>>>>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  38220 Jan 30 00:01 2019-01-29
>>>>> ...
>>>>> ***SNAP***
>>>>> 
>>>>> But what can I do about this? For now, I changed running time to
>>>>> "03 0 * * *".
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Matthias
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Feb 17, 2019, at 4:22 AM, Matthias Fischer <matthias.fischer(a)ipfire.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I discovered something weird:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> From time to time 'logwatch' does not create a daily log.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> E.g.:
>>>>>>> The file '/var/log/logwatch/2019-14-26' exists, but size = 0 Bytes.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> The same happened yesterday with '/var/log/logwatch/2019-02-16':
>>>>>>> 0 Bytes.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> After running...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> /usr/local/bin/logwatch > /var/log/logwatch/`date -I -d yesterday`; \
>>>>>>> LOGWATCH_KEEP=$(sed -ne 's/^LOGWATCH_KEEP=\([0-9]\+\)$/\1/p'
>>>>>>> /var/ipfire/logging/settings); \
>>>>>>> find /var/log/logwatch/ -ctime +${LOGWATCH_KEEP=56} -exec rm -f '{}' ';'
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> ...manually from console, file was created, everything looks ok.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 1. Can anyone confirm?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 2. With which parameter could I change the starting time "01 0 * * *" so
>>>>>>> that this doesn't happen again? I'm searching, but can't find a grip on
>>>>>>> this...
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>>> Matthias