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

-- 
francis
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