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Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)

From Jean-François Bachelet <jfbachelet@free.fr>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12)
Date 2024-11-20 21:40 +0100
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Hello Marial :)

Le 20/11/2024 à 20:16, Darac Marjal a écrit :
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 05:35:58PM +0100, Jean-François Bachelet wrote:
> [cut]
>>
>> 'systemctl status fwlogwatch.service' :
>>
>>
>>> fwlogwatch.service - Firewall log analyzer
>>>      Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/fwlogwatch.service; enabled; 
>>> preset: enabled)
>>>      Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2024-11-20 17:02:18 
>>> CET; 1min 27s ago
>>>        Docs: man:fwlogwatch
>>>     Process: 294164 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c if [ "x${START_DAEMON}" != 
>>> "xtrue" ]; then echo "aborted"; exit 1; fi;    exec /usr/sbin/ 
>>> fwlogwatch -c /etc/fwlogwatch/fwlogwatch.config -R ${PARAMS} 
>>> (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
>>>         CPU: 16ms
>>>
>>> nov. 20 17:02:18 deb systemd[1]: Starting fwlogwatch.service - 
>>> Firewall log analyzer...
>>> nov. 20 17:02:18 deb sh[294164]: aborted
>>> nov. 20 17:02:18 deb systemd[1]: fwlogwatch.service: Control process 
>>> exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
>>> nov. 20 17:02:18 deb systemd[1]: fwlogwatch.service: Failed with 
>>> result 'exit-code'.
>>> nov. 20 17:02:18 deb systemd[1]: Failed to start fwlogwatch.service - 
>>> Firewall log analyzer.
>>
> I might be reading this wrong, but the "ExecStart" command is a shell 
> script which basically says "if the $START_DAEMON variable does not 
> equal 'true', then echo 'aborted' and stop". Given you get sh printing 
> the word 'aborted', I think you're reading that branch.
> 
> Did you set "START_DAEMON=true" in /etc/default/fwlogwatch or similar?
there is no such stuff in the confs...

here is what the cron daily conf says for it :

> /etc/cron.daily/fwlogwatch                                                                        
> #!/bin/sh
> # fwlogwatch's daily cron job
> # Copyright 2001 Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta <agi@agi.as>
> # Licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2.  See the file
> # /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL or <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt>.
> #
> set -e
> test $DEBIAN_SCRIPT_DEBUG && set -v -x
> 
> FWLOGWATCH=/usr/sbin/fwlogwatch
> CONFIG=/etc/default/fwlogwatch
> EXTRA_HEADER="Content-Type: text/plain"
> 
> test -x $FWLOGWATCH || exit 0
> test -r $CONFIG || exit 0
> 
> # Source configuration generated from debconf's values
> . $CONFIG
> 
> if [ "$CRON_EMAIL" = "none" ]; then
>   exit 0
> fi
> 
> OUTPUT=`$FWLOGWATCH $CRON_PARAMS`
> 
> (echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -q 'No valid time entries found') \
>   && exit 0
> 
> ## Mail results
> 
> TMPFILE=`mktemp /tmp/fwlogwatch.XXXXXXXXXX`
> 
> #echo "From: " >> $TMPFILE
> echo "To: $CRON_EMAIL" >> $TMPFILE
> echo "Subject: fwlogwatch daily news" >> $TMPFILE
> 
> (echo "$OUTPUT" | grep -q '</html>') \
>   && echo "Content-Type: text/html" >> $TMPFILE
> 
> echo >> $TMPFILE>
> echo "$OUTPUT" >> $TMPFILE
> 
> /usr/lib/sendmail -F `id -nu` "$CRON_EMAIL" < $TMPFILE
> 
> rm -f $TMPFILE
> 
> # vim:set ai et sts=2 sw=2 tw=0:

as said, /etc/fwlogwatch.config is all commented out except for the pid 
file.

btw, the pid file I've touched for fwlogwatch has disapeared from /run...

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problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12) Jean-François Bachelet <jfbachelet@free.fr> - 2024-11-20 13:20 +0100
  Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2024-11-20 13:40 +0100
    Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12) Jean-François Bachelet <jfbachelet@free.fr> - 2024-11-20 17:40 +0100
      Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12) tomas@tuxteam.de - 2024-11-20 18:10 +0100
        Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12) didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2024-11-20 19:40 +0100
      Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12) Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2024-11-20 20:20 +0100
        Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12) Jean-François Bachelet <jfbachelet@free.fr> - 2024-11-20 21:40 +0100
          Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12) Michel Verdier <mv524@free.fr> - 2024-11-21 08:40 +0100
            [SOLVED] Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12) Jean-François Bachelet <jfbachelet@free.fr> - 2024-11-21 11:30 +0100
              Re: [SOLVED] Re: problem with fwlogwatch.service (debian 12) Eike Lantzsch ZP5CGE / KY4PZ <zp6cge@gmx.net> - 2024-11-21 12:50 +0100

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