Hello everyone I tried to do the same in a different foler /home/scan/ and it works Apparently logwatch is not case sensitive. Franck On 10/7/05, Franck Y <franck110@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > The casing is correct, > everything is Franck with an "F" is capital letter. > When the system print the error it print franck, with an "f" is small letter > > Thank you > > Franck > On 10/7/05, replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <replies-lists-redhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > you're using different casing on "franck" in different places which > > *could* be the problem. make certain that you have the casing consistent > > (that the casing in the save path matches the casing of your home > > directory). [logwatch runs as root so it shouldn't have trouble writing > > the file as long as the pathing is correct.] > > > > > > ------------ Original Message ------------ > > > Date: Friday, October 07, 2005 09:51:00 AM -0400 > > > From: Franck Y <franck110@xxxxxxxxx> > > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > Subject: Re: Logs > > > > > > Hello everyone > > > Logwatch is awesome. I don't have to do a "less" on each file. > > > > > > I tried to send me the report thought mail but i didn't set up SMTP > > > server. So i changed to the file saving option. > > > I created a file on the user Franck like this > > > " vi /home/Franck/log.log" > > > did a "chmod 750 " > > > and > > > [root@master ~]# logwatch --service all --range yesterday --detail high > > > --save /home/Franck/log.log > > > > > > I get this message > > > "Can't open output file: /home/franck/log.log" > > > > > > Can you explain me why it's not working ? > > > > > > Thank you > > > > > > Sincerely > > > -- > > > Franck > > > > > > > > > > > > On 10/6/05, David Henry Wild <dhwlinux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 22:20 -0500, micheal wrote: > > >> > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 18:44 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > > >> > > At 1:28 AM -0500 10/3/05, micheal wrote: > > >> > > > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 02:53 -0300, Franck Y wrote: > > >> > > >> Hi everyone, > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> What are the main file (logs), that I sould check if the > > >> > > >> computer is going well > > >> > > >> . > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> -- > > >> > > >> Franck > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > >> > > > basically all the log files are in /var/logs > > >> > > > > >> > > Logwatch sends an email to root each day summarizing anything it > > >> > > thinks is interesting (or rather, that it doesn't believe is > > >> > > uninteresting). You'd need to log in as root and read the mail; > > >> > > maybe someone here has a better approach. > > >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > > >> > > ___ TonyN.:' > > >> > > <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' > > >> > > <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > > >> > > > > >> > > > >> > Here is what I have done. Edit /etc/aliases as root. Around the > > >> > last line of the file there is something similiar to > > >> > > > >> > # Person who should get root's mail > > >> > root: micheal > > >> > > > >> > I have it going to my local spool, however you can edit this with > > >> > any e-mail address you wish. > > >> > > > >> > After you are done. run the command newaliases as root. > > >> > > > >> > Now all you have to do is check the mail for the e-mail you have > > >> > set up as an 'alias' for root, and you are set. > > >> > > > >> > Micheal > > >> > > > >> I've done this to redirect mail to another, non Linux, computer which > > >> is on my network by sending it to dhwild@xxxxxxxxxxxxx The message > > >> actually arrives, attached to an error message which says that it > > >> should have a real email address rather than root@localhost. > > >> > > >> How do I arrange that, please? > > >> > > >> -- > > >> fedora-list mailing list > > >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > >> To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > >> > > > > > > -- > > > fedora-list mailing list > > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > ---------- End Original Message ---------- > > > > > > > -- > Franck > -- Franck
