FC5 - Logwatch reports stopped

[Don Russell]

Ed Kim wrote:
> Don Russell wrote:
>> Ed Kim 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?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any suggestions... :-)
>>>>
>>> logwatch monitors log files and services as defined in 
>>> /etc/log.d/conf/... usually these log files reside in /var/log
>>>
>>> the crontab -l is a user crontab, there's also a system crontab 
>>> defined in /etc/crontab
>>>
>>> could your /tmp be full?
>>
>>
>> There's lots of space on the drive.... can individual directories 
>> have limits? i.e. /tmp is "full", even though the drive is not?
>> Even if that were the case, I'd expect some sort of errror message 
>> from logwatch when run via CLI. :-(
>>
>> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>>                      37285432  10788896  24602548  31% /
>> /dev/hda1               101086     13862     82005  15% /boot
>> none                    517724         0    517724   0% /dev/shm
>>
>>
>>
> hmm... have you tried to run 'logwatch --debug 100'
> hopefully, it'll pinpoint where it's failing..
>
Well.... a bunch more experimenting and here's what I've learned....

I *can* run logwatch manually and get the report for the two days missed.
But, if I specify the --mail option, I don't get the e-mail'd report.

If I use this command:
Mail -s "local test message" don at boris < /etc/fedora-release

I do not get an error,nor do I receive the test message. I tried several 
different e-mail addresses:
   - a single user id on the local machine
   - a userid at localhost
   - a fuly-qualified internet e-mail address

But, on another userid I have a perl script than runs periodically and 
sends an e-mail report to me at regular intervals.... *that* works fine.

So, I'm confident this means *logwatch* isworking ok... it's just the 
delivery of the report that's a problem.

But it used to work fine... as I mentioned, it's just the last two days 
that I did not receive it.