Werk #11133: mk_logwatch: no longer resolve symlinks

Component

Checks & agents

Title

mk_logwatch: no longer resolve symlinks

Date

Jul 1, 2020

Level

Trivial Change

Class

Bug Fix

Compatibility

Compatible - no manual interaction needed

Checkmk versions & editions

2.0.0i1	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)
1.6.0p14	Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

Symbolic links of logfiles no longer get resolved to the actual path. Some log file paths might change on a daily basis, so resolving symlink paths could result in missing files for the software. This will now be avoided by this fix.

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