LogWatch and Maillog

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Thu Nov 17 11:31:15 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 09:23 -0500, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 08:56 -0500, replies-lists-
> redhat at listmail.innovate.net wrote:
> > You may need to adjust the "detail" level (indicated at the top of the
> > messages you receive) in /etc/log.d/conf/logwatch.conf. The sendmail
> > output will (or is, on my centos4 system at least) put into the logwatch
> > messages when you have the detail at "High"
> > 
> >   # The default detail level for the report.
> >   # This can either be Low, Med, High or a number.
> >   # Low = 0
> >   # Med = 5
> >   # High = 10
> >   Detail = High
> > 
> > That config bit is about 70 lines down in my config file (which is
> > otherwise unmucked). 
> > 
> > You may get the output at something less than "High" (10), e.g., 7-9,
> > but I don't think so - but you can obviously change this and see what
> > you get.
> > 
> > If you want to get into this in more detail, there are some options in
> > the processing scripts that are commented out. Look at:
> > 
> >   /etc/log.d/scripts/services/sendmail
> > 
> > for things that you think you should be seeing but aren't. E.g.,
> > SMTP-AUTH interactions are commented out, so don't get written to the
> > daily message by default.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >    - Rick
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ------------ Original Message ------------
> > > Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 06:53:02 AM -0500
> > > From: Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net>
> > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > Subject: LogWatch and Maillog
> > > 
> > > I installed FC4 about a week ago and have noticed that there are no
> > > sendmail entries in the daily logwatch report.
> > > 
> > > FC3 posted the number of emails processed, the total size of the emails
> > > processed and how many times the ClamAV milter modified the headers.
> > > Is there something that can be adjusted to get this info back?  I
> > > preserved /etc/mail/sendmail.mc from FC3 to FC4.
> > > 
> > > Bob...
> > > 
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> > 
> 
> Rick,
> 
> Thanks.  I've make the "Detail" change and I'll give the scripts a look
> when I get home.
> 
> Bob...
> 

That did it thanks.  Not much difference between Low and High.

Bob...




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