OT: Logwatch Update

[Mike Tremaine]

 > 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.

This is obviously off topic so apologies but just to get it all down.

First from logwatch 7+ the conf layout changed. There is no more /etc/log.d 
instead everything lives in /usr/share/logwatch with end user configs in 
/etc/logwatch. So for this specific question you should only be editing 
/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf. And yes as Julian pointed out you need to 
escape the @ [ <- Perl Arrays ;0 ].

For more information then you wanted the default conf are under 
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf and there is another directory called 
dist.conf provided for distribution to make there own.

dist.conf overrides default.conf
/etc/logwatch/conf overrides dist.conf

The rpm packages should never replace anything in /etc/logwatch/conf.

Now back to our MailScanner program...

-Mike