Trying to use mailx for logwatch

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Fri Jan 3 17:19:16 UTC 2014


On 01/03/2014 11:49 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:29:20 -0500
> Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote:
>
>> And the mail is failing.  Here is what I have done:
>>
>> I determined that in: /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf
>> mailer = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"
>>
>> so in: /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
>> mailer = "/usr/bin/mailx -t"
> mailer = /usr/bin/mailx -s Logwatch user # where user is you.

Why subject?  Do you mean that I should not include -t which seems to 
have the same meaning in sendmail and mailx?

>
> One stop at a time

step?

> sudo updatedb | locate dead.letter

Nothing.  No dead.letter

btw, I do use updatedb and locate regularly.



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