Logwatch: how to stop it going to root?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Mar 11 01:51:03 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 01:43 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Logwatch used to be sent to me on my Fedora system,
> but now it seems to go to root.
> I changed the line in /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch to
> $Config{'mailto'} = "tim";
> but this didn't seem to have any effect.
> 
> Has anyone else met this problem?
----
rather than that approach, it seems much more logical to
edit /etc/aliases to direct mail for user 'root: tim' (and if you are
using postfix, run the command 'postaliases' or if you are using
sendmail, run the command 'newaliases')

Craig




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