On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:50:48 +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote: > Verily I say unto thee, that Martin Marques spake thusly: > > peter kostov escribi: > >> > >> I have logwatch installed, but I didn't know about it. Thanks for > >> pointing it out! > > > > Configure it and make it run. It helps alot! > > AFAIK the default Fedora setup is to install and run logwatch using > cron, every day at 4:02am. > > There should be a file: > > /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch > > If it's there, and crontab contains an entry for cron.daily, then that > should be all the configuring it needs. ...Except that the reports are sent to root, and root's mail often goes unread. Peter, check root's mail -- if the logwatch reports are there, you can edit /etc/aliases, find the line that says who should get root's mail (the last line in the file), uncomment it, and change it to your user ID: # Person who should get root's mail root: put-your-user-ID-here Then run newaliases and you should start getting logwatch reports. -- Chris Tyler Fedora Daily Package - http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/
