Comment 3 for bug 1010602

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I appreciate the detail in your report.

We certainly do want the default supplied by the logwatch package to match the default supplied by the samba package here, and it is clearly a bug that it doesn't.

I don't know what "samba.conf patch to deal with cores dir -mgt" is either, but it sounds to me like other files were ending up in /var/log/samba so samba.conf was narrowed down, but unfortunately in a way that does not match samba's default configuration.

It looks like samba upstream use log.* in their config examples, and Debian uses this by default. This suggests to me that the bug is in the logwatch upstream samba.conf, introduced in the revision that you identified, as well as a bug in Debian in addition to Ubuntu.

So the appropriate place for this patch to go is upstream, and if they reject it then Debian. Ubuntu will pick up the fix by proxy, and then we can fix it in 12.04 if that is appropriate.

So to progress this bug, please can you forward this bug upstream?