FC5 - Logwatch reports stopped
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri May 12 15:53:10 UTC 2006
Don Russell wrote:
> Paul Howarth wrote:
>> Don Russell wrote:
>>> Usually I receive a Logwatch report via e-mail everyday, timestamped
>>> at 0402 LOCAL TIME.
>>>
>>> Today is the second day in a row I did not receive a report at all?
>>>
>>> I tried running logwatch as root with --print but after a minute or
>>> so, there is nothing displayed and the command prompt is displayed
>>> again?
>>>
>>> What would cause logwatch to stop reporting things? Where are the log
>>> files it uses to build the daily report?
>>>
>>> The report showed things such as which updates were installed,
>>> current disk space, log in attempts (successful and failed)
>>>
>>> It's not as if none of those things happened.
>>>
>>> How does Logwatch get started each day? crontab -l doesn't show
>>> anything for root?
>>
>> $ ls -l /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 5 04:58 /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch ->
>> /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
>
>
> For me...
> $ ls -l /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Apr 4 12:07 /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch ->
> /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
>
> We have different logwatch programs... or is the file date when it was
> installed?
I think it's the install date for a symlink.
> $ rpm -q logwatch
> logwatch-7.2.1-1.fc5
Same one I have.
Paul.
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