[CentOS] logwatch not mailing [SOLVED]

Mon Aug 24 12:45:29 UTC 2009
Ray Leventhal <centos at swhi.net>

Ray Leventhal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> # uname -a Linux obfuscated.example.com 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue 
> Aug 4 20:23:34 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> 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 ran logwatch at the command line:
>
> logwatch --detail medium --mailto root at fqdn.example.com
>
> 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
>
> Where should I start looking to figure out why logwatch seems not to be 
> doing its thing?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Ray
>
>   
Thanks again to all who replied.  The situation seems to have remedied 
itself with a log rotation (scheduled).  Once the offending stuff was no 
longer part of the body of the logwatch emails, Mailscanner/clamd had 
nothing to complain about and this morning I find the weekend's logwatch 
emails nestled comfortably in root's inbox.

Next step for me is finding where to allow logwatch emails regardless of 
their contents.

Again, thanks to all,
-Ray