On 5/8/20 10:18 AM, francis.montag...@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...

?
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