On Fri, October 23, 2009 14:22, James B. Byrne wrote:
I am trying to get a logwatch summary emailed to a central address from a cron job. The tasd was copied verbatim from a system which does this already. Both are shown below.
host1 crontab -l as root
45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd --service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service zz-disk_space --service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto support@harte-lyne.ca
host2 crontab -l as root
45 7 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --service http --service imapd --service pop3 --service sshd --service vsftpd --service zz-disk_space -- service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto support@harte-lyne.ca #Logwatch summary
My problem is that only the first gets delivered to support@harte-lyne.ca. The second gets delivered to root@host2.harte-lyne.ca and not to support. It has been a considerable time since I dealt with logwatch on the first machine and I cannot remember is there was any special configuration of logwatch itself to enable this to happen. Does anyone know what I might be overlooking?
I thought after the pain I went through finding the solution for this that some here might be amused to learn what the problem turned out to be. Note this portion of the second, misbehaving, cron entry example:
zz-disk_space -- service zz-network --service zz-sys --mailto
There is an errant space between -- and service for the --service flag to the zz-network argument; and this caused all the difficulty.