forwarding logs

[Burke, Thomas G.]

Yes, I am getting e-mails.  It seems to follow as I said below...  Interesting - if I mail to root, I get the mail, but as I said, it there seemd to be a dependance on having a domain on the address in the scripts.  I did not start getting any mails from cron until I modified its mailto option.  Same with another script.  Seems I saw something about this when looking through sendmail docs, but I don't recall the specifics.
 
Someone else asked what version - I'm running RH 6.2 with all updates up to, but not including 7.1 releases - kernel 2.2.24...  I've not upgraded, as my ipchains firewall works wonderfully, & I don't have the time to sit down & learn iptables.  Besides, 6.2 has been working great for 5 years or so, now.
 
    -Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of David Bear
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:33 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: forwarding logs



are you getting any emails? maybe its not the syslog system, but the 
mail system. 

try going into a standard user account, create a .forward file, then 
as root, sent a mail message to that user. check the destination 
mailbox to make sure it was delivered. Then check /var/log/messages or 
/var/log/maillog to see if there are any usefull error messages. 

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: 
> I've done all this (except the permission checking)...  No change so far.  What *should* the permissions be? 
>  
>     -Tom 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [ mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Reuben D. Budiardja 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:34 AM 
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list 
> Subject: Re: forwarding logs 
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:25, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: 
> > All, 
> > 
> >  Just reinstalled my server, and am having problems getting the logs 
> > forwarded where I want.  In the past, I've had all logs forwarded to my 
> > work e-mail.  I have one set working, but only because I have changed 
> > root's email address deep down inside some scripts.  I've put a ".forward" 
> > in root's home directory, but the system does not seem to be forwarding 
> > mail.  What am I doing wrong? 
> 
> I usually just edit the /etc/aliases file to have an email for root forwarded 
> to a different account: 
> 
> root: me at workemail.com 
> 
> Then run 'newaliases'. 
> 
> If you use .forward file, the pitfall is usually with the permission of 
> the .forward file. Take a look at /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages (ie. 
> grep for ".forward"). 
> 
> You should not need to cange anything in the log script itself. 
> 
> RDB 
> -- 
> Reuben D. Budiardja 
> Dept. Physics and Astronomy 
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 
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