On Friday 19 November 2004 08:15, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >John Dangler wrote: >>Clifford~ >>Thanks for the reply. >>rpm-qa|grep logwatch reveals: >>logwatch-5.1.3 >> >>I haven't started looking at the 'root' mail yet, since I haven't >> figured a way to get the email client to read the root from the >> local system. I did find the man page on logwatch and am reading >> up on it. >> >>Thanks for the tip! > >If you are doing any kind of sys admin work make sure you read your > root mail on a daily basis. I recommend mutt to do this. > alternatively logwatch and programs like those have a configuration > setting to mail the logs into any arbitrary email id. set those and > read your mail on a regular basis >regards >Rahul Sundaram Duh, I get roots mail with kmail, just setup another src in the configs. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.29% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.