Hi Alison, Am Wed, 7 Mar 2012 10:56:15 -0800 schrieb Alison Chaiken <alchai...@gmail.com>: > Amaya notes: > >You do not need to change the sendmail reference in /etc/ in debian > >there is a system in place so that invoking sendmail works no matter > >what smpt server you are using (exim, postfix, qmail..) > > Maybe the problem is not with SMTP then, hmm. > > Amaya helpfully asks: > > * Do you want logrotate to send you the logs by email? > > Then you need to use the mail directive in /etc/logrotate.conf > > I used to get a sort of daily highlights report on Fedora that was a > summary of higher criticality messages from /var/log/messages and > rkhunter. The messages were great, as they weren't the entire > logfiles, but just the parts I possibly needed to look at. I'd > like to read such messages on Debian, too. Is there a mechanism to > set this up?
I am using logwatch for this purpose, it filters the messages and you can set what level of detail you wish. As I don't want to get those mails daily but rather weekly, I moved the cronjob from /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch to /etc/cron.weekly and changed the call "/usr/sbin/logwatch --output mail" to "/usr/sbin/logwatch --output mail --range 'last week' --archives". If you want to get daily reports, you don't have to do anything but installing logwatch. Cheers, Mika -- Own your own computer. Don't use Windows 7. <http://windows7sins.org>
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