On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 02:54 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Dave Burns wrote: > > >> How can I get the logwatch report on one machine (helen.gayleard.com) > >> sent to another machine (alfred.gayleard.com) on the same LAN? > >> > >> I tried editing /etc/aliases on the first machine, > >> changing the last line to > >> root: tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > >> (and running newaliases) but this did not do the trick. > > > > That should be good enough, *if* sendmail is working on that machine > > and that address doesn't bounce. If you do > > > > echo 'testing the client'|mutt -s 'testing client' > > tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > > do you ever get the email? > > First of all, thanks for your response. > I tried the above command, but the mail did not get through. > > Looking at /var/log/maillog on helen I see the lines > ------------------------------- > Jun 4 02:27:56 helen sendmail[10504]: m541RtCq010504: > to=tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, ctladdr=tim (500/500), delay=00:00:01, > xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=30326, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], > dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (m541Rtds010505 Message accepted for delivery) > Jun 4 02:27:56 helen sendmail[10507]: m541Rtds010505: > to=<tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ctladdr=<tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (500/500), > delay=00:00:01, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=120482, > relay=smtp.eircom.net [159.134.198.135], dsn=5.6.0, stat=Dataformat error > Jun 4 02:27:56 helen sendmail[10507]: m541Rtds010505: m541Ruds010507: DSN: > Data format error > ------------------------------- > > I suspect this means the email was sent to my ISP, eircom.net , > who rejected the email on the grounds the address was unknown or wrong. > > > I am also assuming you haven't tweaked the default config of logwatch. > > > > Speaking of which, you could try changing the "mailto" field in > > /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf. > > This file was empty (except for a comment line) on my Fedora-9 system. > But I've added > ------------------------------- > MailTo = tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > MailFrom = Logwatch > ------------------------------- > and will see if this does the trick. ---- it won't # host alfred.gayleard.com Host alfred.gayleard.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) # host helen.gayleard.com Host helen.gayleard.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) # host gayleard.com gayleard.com has address 86.43.71.228 gayleard.com mail is handled by 10 mail.gayleard.com. no known host names for alfred.gayleard.com or helen.gayleard.com but there is a gayleard.com and a mail.gayleard.com - those are usable... Craig -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
