LogWatch and Maillog

Bob Chiodini rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Wed Nov 16 14:23:07 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 08:56 -0500, replies-lists-
redhat at listmail.innovate.net wrote:
> You may need to adjust the "detail" level (indicated at the top of the
> messages you receive) in /etc/log.d/conf/logwatch.conf. The sendmail
> output will (or is, on my centos4 system at least) put into the logwatch
> messages when you have the detail at "High"
> 
>   # The default detail level for the report.
>   # This can either be Low, Med, High or a number.
>   # Low = 0
>   # Med = 5
>   # High = 10
>   Detail = High
> 
> That config bit is about 70 lines down in my config file (which is
> otherwise unmucked). 
> 
> You may get the output at something less than "High" (10), e.g., 7-9,
> but I don't think so - but you can obviously change this and see what
> you get.
> 
> If you want to get into this in more detail, there are some options in
> the processing scripts that are commented out. Look at:
> 
>   /etc/log.d/scripts/services/sendmail
> 
> for things that you think you should be seeing but aren't. E.g.,
> SMTP-AUTH interactions are commented out, so don't get written to the
> daily message by default.
> 
> 
> 
>    - Rick
> 
> 
> 
> ------------ Original Message ------------
> > Date: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 06:53:02 AM -0500
> > From: Bob Chiodini <rchiodin at bellsouth.net>
> > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > Subject: LogWatch and Maillog
> > 
> > I installed FC4 about a week ago and have noticed that there are no
> > sendmail entries in the daily logwatch report.
> > 
> > FC3 posted the number of emails processed, the total size of the emails
> > processed and how many times the ClamAV milter modified the headers.
> > Is there something that can be adjusted to get this info back?  I
> > preserved /etc/mail/sendmail.mc from FC3 to FC4.
> > 
> > Bob...
> > 
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> 

Rick,

Thanks.  I've make the "Detail" change and I'll give the scripts a look
when I get home.

Bob...




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