Logwatch: how to stop it going to root?

Jake McHenry linux at nittanytravel.com
Sun Mar 11 02:46:09 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')


and what if he only wants logwatch, not the rest of roots mail?


> 
> Craig
> 




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