Logwatch broken, refers to zcat instead of gzcat

[siraaj@…]

After installing logwatch on 10.6.2, it was unable to make a clean run - returning error:

zcat: /var/log/system.log.0.gz.Z: No such file or directory
system zcat failed: 256 at /opt/local/bin/logwatch line 876.

I was able to fix this, by editing /opt/local/bin/logwatch and changing line 76 from

$Config{'pathtozcat'} = "zcat";

to

$Config{'pathtozcat'} = "gzcat";

Logwatch now works.

[siraaj@…]

Cc Me!

[blb@…]

My system (10.6.2) does have zcat as /usr/bin/zcat.

[siraaj@…]

Replying to blb@…:

My system (10.6.2) does have zcat as /usr/bin/zcat.

Mine does too. But, as indicated by the error message, it seems that zcat expects *.Z compressed files in /var/log/, when they're all either *.gz or *.bz2

[tobypeterson]

See ​http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/zcat.html for more info.

[siraaj@…]

Replying to toby@…:

See ​http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/zcat.html for more info.

Please elaborate, if you're actually trying to be helpful.

[lassi.tuura@…]

For me logwatch works just fine, I haven't seen this issue. Maybe installing gzip port is sufficient/required. I can't really tell if it's required, as it got installed by something else long before I did anything with the logwatch package, I am not sure how I'd test without it.

$ which -a zcat
/opt/local/bin/zcat
/usr/bin/zcat
$ port provides /opt/local/bin/zcat
/opt/local/bin/zcat is provided by: gzip

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

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