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Werk #2293: logwatch: Remove global setting logwatch_service_output from WATO

Component Checks & agents
Title logwatch: Remove global setting logwatch_service_output from WATO
Date May 20, 2015
Level Trivial Change
Class New Feature
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.7i1 Checkmk Community, Checkmk Pro, Checkmk Ultimate MT

This setting decides wether (default) or not to output the last critical found message in a logfile in the output of the check plugin of logwatch checks. You still can set this variable in main.mk if you like. Existing setting still work.

This make Check_MK more consistent: there are no settings for checks in the global settings any more now.

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