logwatch and cron issue

boneskin at cox.net boneskin at cox.net
Tue Sep 20 20:07:10 UTC 2005


Yes - I made sure to do that.  Also I tried using the option --mailto you at foo.com, which works from the command line but not from cron.

> 
> From: Greg Golin <greg.golin at gmail.com>
> Date: 2005/09/20 Tue PM 02:57:04 EDT
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: logwatch and cron issue
> 
> make sure to run newaliases after editing /etc/alias.
> in your crontab add a MAILTO=you at foo.com so that cron sends you the
> output. troubleshoot accordingly.
> 
> Regards,
> GG
> 
> On 9/20/05, boneskin at cox.net <boneskin at cox.net> wrote:
> > Running Logwatch manually will send the email to my account but croning the same command does not work.  I've tried using the cron.daily and editing root's crontab.  Also I have tried aliasing root:myemail at foo.com.  I haven't been able to find anything on the possibility of cron overriding mail options for programs that it invokes.
> > 
> > thanks.
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