FC5 - Logwatch reports stopped

Ed Kim ed.kim at rhatbox.com
Fri May 12 14:33:44 UTC 2006


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?




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