Logwatch Update

[Ken A]

Steve Campbell wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken A" <ka at pacific.net>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:30 AM
> Subject: Re: Logwatch Update
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>> Steve Campbell wrote:
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>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ryan Weaver" <ryanw at falsehope.com>
>>> To: "'MailScanner discussion'" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 7:08 AM
>>> Subject: RE: Logwatch Update
>>>
>>>
>>>> ----Original Message----
>>>> From: Mike Tremaine
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 11:20 PM
>>>> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
>>>> Subject: RE: Logwatch Update (Phil Udel)
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>>
>>>>> Or you can always get in out of cvs at logwatch.org. Having said
>>>>> that I'll see if I can roll your changes into the current version.
>>>>> I'd also encourge you [and everyone who uses logwatch] to upgrade
>>>>> to the 7.3.1 release it.
>>>>>
>>>>> -Mike
>>>>
>>>> If you are running RedHat or CentOS, the Razor's Edge RPM Repository 
>>>> keeps
>>>> logwatch fairly up to date.... http://rpm.razorsedge.org/
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ryan
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>> I just upgraded the logwatch on my CentOS 3 machine from the link 
>>> above. A general pair of questions about all of this:
>>>
>>> 1. I run the cron.daily logwatch and would like to email myself when 
>>> this is run. Cron seems to want to run this and mail to root. I 
>>> changed the logwatch.conf file (in a few different places) to 
>>> "mailto" my address, but it still mails to root. Anyone know which of 
>>> the four or five logwatch.conf files will correct this?
>>
>> Add this above the logwatch cron job in your root crontab:
>> MAILTO="you at yourdomain.com"

Sorry, I think you'd actually have to set myname\@mydomain.com in the 
perl script. Perl doesn't like the unescaped @.
Ken
Pacific.Net

> I'm not sure if this is the cron variable you're speaking of or not, but 
> I don't understand where you are suggesting the line should be inserted. 
> This job is run from cron.daily on a RH system, using a Perl script that 
> sets a lot of variables within that script. There is a line to change 
> the logwatch variable "mailto", but that doesn't seem to work. The 
> script runs through all of the 4 default directories to set variables as 
> described in the man page.
> 
> The big problem is that when I set the mailto variable in the script 
> using myname at mydomain.com, it indicates a bad variable due to the "@". I 
> tried using another form, along with a Perl string, and that doesn't 
> work either. I think I'll try the /etc/logwatch/conf files and see where 
> I go with that.
> 
> Thanks, though
> 
> Steve
>>
>> Ken A.
>> Pacific.Net
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>>
>>>
>>> 2. If I upgraded, what do I do with the file attached in the earlier 
>>> posts? I do see ClamAV and other new stuff in the report, but will 
>>> the attached file make a difference in what I get with the 
>>> off-the-shelf RPM from above?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Steve
>>>
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