[CentOS] Centos6 - Logwatch not mailing on 64bit

David david at daku.org
Sun Aug 21 19:56:34 UTC 2011


At 12:32 PM 8/21/2011, you wrote:
>Well, can we verify whether the sent mail generated in the 
>/var/log/mail.log? Also, (assuming that you are running Postfix), I 
>assume that the configuration are identical on both 32-bit and 
>64-bit systems, right?
>
>On Aug 21, 2011, at 3:23 PM, david wrote:
>
> > Folks
> >
> > Logwatch is doing its thing properly on my 32-bit servers, delivering
> > the report by mail to my root account once a day sometime around 3:30am.
> >
> > On the 64-bit systems, no mail is occurring.  From the "cron" log on
> > a 64-bit system, there are lines like:
> >
> > cron-20110821:Aug 21 03:36:23 XXX run-parts(/etc/cron.daily)[9727]:
> > finished 0logwatch
> > (where "XXX" stands for the server name)
> >
> > but no report is sent.
> >
> > If I run logtwatch manually, by simply typing
> >   logwatch
> > as root, I get the mail.
> >
> > Is this a known issue?  Is there some information I could supply that
> > would help identify the reason?
> > To the best of my knowledge, I made no changes to the logwatch 
> configuration.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > David Kurn
> >


Rilindo:
I performed as root
   cd /var/log
   grep -ri logw *

and only the "cron-" messages showed up.  I am using Sendmail and 
dovecot, and the sendmail is configured to relay all mail to my 
(local) mail server as a "smart relay"

[converting to posting responses at the bottom]

David





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