Logwatch email reports

Chris Kloiber ckloiber at ckloiber.com
Thu Apr 15 11:36:04 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 17:42, Ed Jones wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I'm having trouble getting logwatch (version 4.3.2-2.1) to email me.
> 
> I've set up reporting at level 5, and the period of reporting to 'yesterday'
> (without inverted commas, obviously) in /etc/log.d/conf/logwatch.conf and
> I've checked that there's a cron job in /etc/cron.daily (there is - it's
> called 00-logwatch, which is actually a symlink to
> /etc/log.d/scripts/logwatch.pl) - but I'm just not getting daily emails to
> root.
> 
> If I run logwatch from the command line, it emails fine.
> 
> I've removed the package (using rpm -e) and reinstalled it using yum.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks in advance...
> 
> Ed

Grrr. This email got filtered into my personal Logwatch folder (Subject
begins with Logwatch). All I did was edit /etc/aliases and make all root
mail go to me, as it should be. Don't forget to run 'newaliases'.


-- 
Chris Kloiber






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