Flashes of Panic

You might remember my wrestling with Logwatch. Once I got the new and up-to-date version working nicely on all three servers, I ran in to a problem where one of them was producing daily reports which were inconveniently long for email. (I would have to move on to another application and wait for that report to load in the mail window.)

So today I opened up the processing scripts and tried to figure out why the blizzard of log was getting dumped directly to my mailbox, and not nicely packaged.

I found it.

And—you won’t believe this part—I fixed it.

Now the question is, was this just an issue with me? Or should I send a patch to the author? If accepted, that would rank as my first-ever code contribution to an open-source project. However minor (the patch file doesn’t even make 2k, and most of that is context.)

Now playing: Cut In Two from Somewhere Else by The Church