Logwatch Update

[Steve Campbell]

Ken, Julian,

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From: "Julian Field" <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk>
To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: Logwatch Update


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> Steve Campbell wrote:
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>> ----- 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"
>>
>> 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 "@".
> Put a \ before the @

I tried that also with no luck. I even used a slash before the .com and it 
still didn't work. I think that's enough on this list though as this is a 
logwatch problem and not MS, so I'll try to see what I can find out 
somewhere else and let this list get back to its main business.

I think this is all being loaded into an array (I'm still not Perl-literate) 
by a statement such as

$Config{'mailto'} = "campbell\@cnpapers.com";

The original is:

$Config('mailto'} = "root";

Thanks for all the help, though.

Steve
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>> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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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