Thanks to everyone for their suggestions regarding my logwatch problem, which I am happy to say I have now fixed.
The main problem was that Debian, unlike Fedora, does not automatically include logwatch. Therefore I was convinced that I must use the preinstalled and similarly named logrotate to email myself system logs, so naturally the man page that I read had unfamiliar options, so I was confused. The solution to the problem was therefore to install logwatch, to minimally edit its config files, and add it to /etc/cron.daily. The logwatch emails from my NAT'ed laptop were going to my SPAM folder, so I had to reconfigure my mailer to solve that problem. I'm still not getting messages from rkhunter, so that I will have to investigate further. A lingering question is, should I edit root's crontab to run my backup script, or just put it in /etc/cron.<frequency>? As far I can tell, root should always use /etc/cron.<frequency> and users are forced to use "crontab -e" since they can't edit /etc. Is this correct? Or is using root's crontab sometimes indicated? Thanks again, Alison -- Alison Chaiken (650) 279-5600 (cell) http://www.exerciseforthereader.org/ "Laws only declare rights; they do not deliver them." Happy Birthday, Dr. King. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cakoghgxk8dnnq9dbbnctpvjhphc2uahouxk_wnknydt3kew...@mail.gmail.com
