On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Ray Leventhal centos@swhi.net wrote:
I noticed a few days ago that I'm not getting my logwatch emails to the root account any longer, and while I've definitely been applying updates from base, no other changes have happened on this box.
I'd check the /var/spool/cron log to see if it's actually running properly. After that I'd check the maillogs to see if there was a delivery problem.
I ran logwatch at the command line:
logwatch --detail medium --mailto root@fqdn.example.com
Try that again, but tail -f /var/log/maillog in another window (if there's not alot of mail traffic on that host) to see if it's generating any mail logs
but still no email.
As expected, /etc/cron.daily has the following entry: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Jul 30 2008 0logwatch -> /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl
What are the permissions on /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl? Check to see if any updates were applied to logwatch recently (yum info or rpm -qi logwatch) and check your logwatch config files to see if anything changed there.
Hope this helps, Cliff