I was hoping someone might be able to explain an error message that has recently shown up when we run Logwatch. We've set up an vsftpd server on our CentOS 7 setup and I noticed the FTP logs weren't showing up in the Logwatch summary. I made a change in the vsftpd configuration to where the logs were saved and then Logwatch started reporting on them. However the emailed version we get from cron only shows this error message:
Can't open: /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/vsftpd-differ at /usr/sbin/logwatch line 1335.
When I run /usr/sbin/logwatch from the command line I get the same error. However if I run this:
/usr/sbin/logwatch --service vsftpd
it runs correctly without the error. I tried using the debug option to get a better idea of what was going on and got this:
The /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/vsftpd-differ file doesn't exist, hence the error. I cannot find any references in any configuration files to a vsftpd-differ service. I'm not sure what I did to make this error appear.
I would really appreciate it if anyone could provide guidance as how I might resolve this.
Thank you.
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[ I don't know if this is still an issue, but posting it in case it helps others. ]
Logwatch builds its list of services by scanning the config/services directory. So check in the usual locations (such as /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/, /etc/logwatch/conf/services/, and /usr/share/logwatch/dist.conf/services/ directories) for a file called vsftpd-differ.conf.
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Hi,
I was hoping someone might be able to explain an error message that has recently shown up when we run Logwatch. We've set up an vsftpd server on our CentOS 7 setup and I noticed the FTP logs weren't showing up in the Logwatch summary. I made a change in the vsftpd configuration to where the logs were saved and then Logwatch started reporting on them. However the emailed version we get from cron only shows this error message:
When I run /usr/sbin/logwatch from the command line I get the same error. However if I run this:
it runs correctly without the error. I tried using the debug option to get a better idea of what was going on and got this:
The /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services/vsftpd-differ file doesn't exist, hence the error. I cannot find any references in any configuration files to a vsftpd-differ service. I'm not sure what I did to make this error appear.
I would really appreciate it if anyone could provide guidance as how I might resolve this.
Thank you.
[ I don't know if this is still an issue, but posting it in case it helps others. ]
Logwatch builds its list of services by scanning the config/services directory. So check in the usual locations (such as /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/, /etc/logwatch/conf/services/, and /usr/share/logwatch/dist.conf/services/ directories) for a file called vsftpd-differ.conf.