Yes, I am getting e-mails. It seems to follow as I said below... Interesting - if I mail to root, I get the mail, but as I said, it there seemd to be a dependance on having a domain on the address in the scripts. I did not start getting any mails from cron until I modified its mailto option. Same with another script. Seems I saw something about this when looking through sendmail docs, but I don't recall the specifics.
Someone else asked what version - I'm running RH 6.2 with all updates up to, but not including 7.1 releases - kernel 2.2.24... I've not upgraded, as my ipchains firewall works wonderfully, & I don't have the time to sit down & learn iptables. Besides, 6.2 has been working great for 5 years or so, now.
-Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of David Bear
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:33 PM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: forwarding logs
are you getting any emails? maybe its not the syslog system, but the
mail system.
try going into a standard user account, create a .forward file, then
as root, sent a mail message to that user. check the destination
mailbox to make sure it was delivered. Then check /var/log/messages or
/var/log/maillog to see if there are any usefull error messages.
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> I've done all this (except the permission checking)... No change so far. What *should* the permissions be?
>
> -Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [ mailto:redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Reuben D. Budiardja
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:34 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: forwarding logs
>
>
>
> On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:25, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Just reinstalled my server, and am having problems getting the logs
> > forwarded where I want. In the past, I've had all logs forwarded to my
> > work e-mail. I have one set working, but only because I have changed
> > root's email address deep down inside some scripts. I've put a ".forward"
> > in root's home directory, but the system does not seem to be forwarding
> > mail. What am I doing wrong?
>
> I usually just edit the /etc/aliases file to have an email for root forwarded
> to a different account:
>
> root: me@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Then run 'newaliases'.
>
> If you use .forward file, the pitfall is usually with the permission of
> the .forward file. Take a look at /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages (ie.
> grep for ".forward").
>
> You should not need to cange anything in the log script itself.
>
> RDB
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> Dept. Physics and Astronomy
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
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