On Jul 21, 2014, at 11:52 AM, Ken Stephens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Rich Shepard wrote:
>> On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, Rich Shepard wrote:
>>
>>> Ever since last weekend's aborted attempts to modify log rotation
>>> intervals (which were completely rolled back), one of the scripts in
>>> cron.daily (0logwatch; a soft link to
>>> /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl) stopped running. At least, I'm not
>>> getting the reports mailed to me each morning at 04:40.
>> Now I'm completely flumfloxed: in root's crontab is this line:
>>
>> 45 4 * * * /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl 1> /dev/null
>>
>> and logwatch.pl contains,
>>
>> # if MAILTO is set in the environment, grab it, as it may be used by cron
>> # or anacron
>> if ($ENV{'MAILTO'}) {
>> $Config{'mailto'} = $ENV{'MAILTO'};
>> } else {
>> $Config{'mailto'} = "root";
>> }
>>
>> So what might be the reason it's not run with the results in my inbox as
>> they used to be every morning? If, as root, I manualy invoke logwatch.pl
>> from the command line and pipe the results to 'mailx -s "Logwatch"
>> rshepard@..." it soon shows up in the inbox.
>>
>> Your thoughts and suggestions?
>>
>> Rich
>>
> Rich,
>
> Looks to me like you need to put a MAILTO environment variable in your
> root's ".bashrc" file if you use the bash shell as root's default.
>
> export MAILTO="rshepard" or whatever your username is on your laptop.
>
> Could it be that simple?
Alternatively, make sure the /etc/aliases file has your email address in it for
root. The second part of that if/then/else will then work.
Russell Johnson
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