Logwatch 7.3 missing entries in Centos 5.5

I spent this morning trying to figure out why logwatch 7.3 mailings were only showing exim entries on a newly deployed Centos server.  It turns out that Centos 5.5 now ships with rsyslogd, which by default logs entries with a different timestamp format than traditional syslog.  There is a bug report filed at

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=583621

The fix was to edit /etc/rsyslog.conf and modify each line to have a trailing

;RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat

For example :

authpriv.*                                              /var/log/secure;RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat

Restarting the rsyslog daemon resulted in a working logwatch.