On 5/8/20 10:18 AM, Francis.Montagnac@inria.fr wrote:
Hi.
On Fri, 08 May 2020 09:51:13 -0400 Robert Moskowitz wrote:
May 8 03:27:17 lx140e run-parts[66530]: (/etc/cron.daily) finished 0logwatch So it looks like I need to modify /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf with mailer = "/usr/local/mycron" And see what happens next.
# cat /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf # Local configuration options go here (defaults are in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf) mailer = "/usr/local/mycron" What happens after I made this change and then "systemctl restart logwatch" was for logwatch to send its output to /var/log/messages So what am I missing?
The logwatch RPM allows 2 ways to launch logwatch:
- with cron /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch
- with a systemd timer /usr/lib/systemd/system/logwatch.{service,timer}
By using 'systemctl restart' you invoked the later that do not use /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf but instead:
# This first EnvironmentFile has the Logwatch default variables EnvironmentFile=-/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/systemd.conf # This second EnvironmentFile is meant for system-specific # customization of variables, including overriding the defaults EnvironmentFile=-/etc/logwatch/conf/systemd.conf
Ooops.
So to get things back to how they were:
systemctl stop logwatch
And then wait until cron.daily
or do something to kick it off on the next cron hourly...
?