FC5 - Logwatch reports stopped

[Paul Howarth]

Don Russell wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Don Russell wrote:
>>> Usually I receive a Logwatch report via e-mail everyday, timestamped 
>>> at 0402 LOCAL TIME.
>>>
>>> Today is the second day in a row I did not receive a report at all?
>>>
>>> I tried running logwatch as root with --print but after a minute or 
>>> so, there is nothing displayed and the command prompt is displayed 
>>> again?
>>>
>>> What would cause logwatch to stop reporting things? Where are the log 
>>> files it uses to build the daily report?
>>>
>>> The report showed things such as which updates were installed, 
>>> current disk space, log in attempts (successful and failed)
>>>
>>> It's not as if none of those things happened.
>>>
>>> How does Logwatch get started each day? crontab -l doesn't show 
>>> anything for root?
>>
>> $ ls -l /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr  5 04:58 /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch -> 
>> /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
> 
> 
> For me...
> $ ls -l /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr  4 12:07 /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch -> 
> /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
> 
> We have different logwatch programs... or is the file date when it was 
> installed?

I think it's the install date for a symlink.

> $ rpm -q logwatch
> logwatch-7.2.1-1.fc5

Same one I have.

Paul.