You can have all root's mail sent to someone else by changing the
/etc/mail/aliases file and then running 'newaliases'. At the bottom of
the file, you will see a line that says
# Person who should get root's mail
root: bacchi@xxxxxxx
This will send ALL root mail to you, not just logwatch.
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 08:40, Shane Presley wrote:
> Hello,
>
> logwatch runs nightly, and e-mails root. I would like it to email someone else.
>
> I saw in /etc/cron.daily/00-logwatch a statement:
> $Config{'mailto'} = "root";
>
> Is that where I would make the change? There's no other config file?
>
> Also, on some of our Solaris servers we run an hourly script to report
> any "unknown" events in /var/adm/messages. It checks it against an
> ignore list, and e-mails out any new log entries that aren't on the
> ignore list. Can logwatch do that?
>
> Shane
>
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