-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > oldman wrote: >> I recently purchased a router, got it all set up most everything >> still works, but I do not get the daily logwatch message any longer on >> either my own log-in nor on root's. I do get this spurious smart >> error message so the mail system is working, the aliases file is correct. >> >> I did also change the localhost.localdomain via >> system-config-network and the smart message that I get indicates the >> hostname is the name I added. I seem to have the same problem on FC6 >> and Rawhide, so I'm pretty sure it's something I didn't know about. >> > A bit more information would help. Where are root's messages > supposed to go? Is the host listed in /etc/hosts? What mail server > are you running, and does it know it is supposed to deliver mail for > that address locally? > > If you are using DHCP to configure your netowrk interface, then it > may be that the mail server is trying to look up the hostname to > send mail to using the name server(s) supplied by the router. > > Mikkel Roots messages would normally be addressed to root, but I have the /etc/aliases file set to route them to my user account. This is working fine for sendmail is sending me all of these &^%% smart error messages and they are showing up in the mailbox at /var/spool/mail/<myacctname> also there is no /var/spool/mail/root The hostname that I configured is in the /etc/hosts as is the default '127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost' and the '::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6' lines. The router has a dhcp server internally so yes I use that to set my system. I don't believe that sendmail needs any further configuring on that account as before I had the router, I was using dhcp to get my IP address from my isp. After that 1st message I found a configfile for logwatch and changed the MailTo option within that. I hope that that will fix the problem. Also just for superstition ran the newaliases command even though I have restarted the machine a few times since changing the aliases file. With any luck I will see a logwatch... Hmm just thinking... Yes! I just ran the 0Logwach file and it seems to work now (why the heck is it 0logwatch anyway?) Thanks again Mikkel Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF9GoF5mBKdb7VQEcRAg27AKCIoE3LMa2ZCPlbzsBec3+Q7qXtoQCeJKwK xNONor22ktuLoWSOyoQWvzo= =qQ7j -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
