Logwatch reports

Bob Chiodini Robert.Chiodini-1 at ksc.nasa.gov
Tue Jul 18 11:00:50 UTC 2006


Anne Wilson wrote:
> My 'production' boxes mail a logwatch report to my imap server, which I can 
> pick up with kmail in the usual way.  My FC6test1 laptop is not sending the 
> reports, so clearly something is missing.
>
> I have set /etc/aliases to send root mail to anne at mylan.net.  I can send a 
> message from kmail to anne at mylan.net and it arrives correctly.  What am I 
> missing?
>
> Of course, I'm assuming that the cron jobs are actually creating the logwatch 
> reports.  /var/log shows that anacron changed the date stamp to today, so 
> that must be working OK.
>
> Anne
>   
Anne,

Did you run newaliases after adding the root to anne alias?  Or restart 
sendmail.

Does /var/log/maillog indicate any oddness?

Bob...




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