On 5/8/20 10:18 AM, Francis.Montagnac(a)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...
?