I kinda want to keep LogWatch as that covers all major logs, the less 'log watchers' I need to use to achieve the same goal, the better and happier I will be. Anyone have any suggestions as to why this could be happening? Any Postfix/LogWatch gurus' out there? Mr. K. Hawkes > >>>>> "kh" == K Hawkes <k.hawkes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > kh> Hey all, > kh> Up until I installed Postfix on my RH9 box, Logwatch was happily throwing me > kh> E-Mails every day, just like I wanted. > > kh> Now that I've installed and configured Postfix, I no longer get the E-Mails > kh> from logwatch at all. I've done some digging and have found that it's trying > kh> to use 'mailx' (/bin/mail), this worked before without postfix, but now it > kh> fails, saying it can't move a file. Looking at /bin/mail it seems that it's > kh> not designed to work with Postfix's way of handling mailboxes (I'm using > kh> mailboxes, not maildirs). > > kh> I see 'sendmail.postfix' and tell Logwatch to try that one, it fails also. > kh> The ONLY way I can find to get the logwatch logs again is if I use a script > kh> to send the log contents out to me, but there is no subject line and it's > kh> not as clean as I'd like. > > kh> Run logwatch like this : > kh> /usr/sbin/logwatch --debug HIGH > ~/debug.out > > kh> Here is the error I get when it tries to use /bin/mail : > > kh> cannot move file: /var/spool/temp/1070121234000.30688.srv.darknyte.net.mail > > kh> I am totally stumped about this, I've tried various things and all have > kh> failed. Is it something I've done, a misconfiguration with LogWatch or > kh> Postfix somewhere? Does anyone else manage to use LogWatch and PostFix > kh> together? > > kh> If anyone has any useful or helpful suggestions I'd be most grateful. > > How about using 1pflogsumm , which is part of most of the postfix > rpms ? > Grab it at http://postfix.wl0.org/ftp/RPMS-noarch/ > > > -- > Ray Curtis Unix Programmer/Consultant Curtis Consulting > mailto:ray@xxxxxxxx http://www.ccux.com > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
