on 9-29-2010 2:43 PM lostson spake the following: > Quoting M�rio Barbosa <mplbarbosa at clix.pt>: > >> LostSon wrote: >>> Yes I did run newaliases and still no joy >>> >>> Mark Van Bogart <mark.vanbogart at gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Did you run 'newaliases' after editing /etc/aliases? >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:27 AM, lostson <lostson at lostsonsvault.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello >>>>> A few weeks ago I started having problems with my system email or >>>>> specifically my logwatch reports showing up in my inbox. I got most of >>>>> those issues figued out except one now when i get an email from my >>>>> system it has a title of this >>>>> >>>>> Cron <root at localhost> run-parts /etc/cron.daily >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> with this message >>>>> >>>>> /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch: >>>>> >>>>> Recipient names must be specified >> >> >> http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/06/sendmail-versatile-mail-server.html >> >> Look for "Check if sendmail is identifying your station's hostname >> correctly:" >> > > Well a few weeks ago after updating, my logwatch reports just > stopped, i had some > permission problems and other such things. So last night what i did was > > yum remove sendmail logwatch > > then i reinstalled them and was gettting the error > logwatch cannot execute sendmail -t > > turns out that in the /usr/share/--- logwatch.conf its says mailer > = " sendmail -t" > > but that kicks in the error so in etc/logwatch/logwatch.conf if you add > mailer = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" > then the error goes away and logwatch reports start flowing back to > my inbox like normal > so that fixed my error and all is well now. Talking with people last > night they said it > was weird probably that a symlink was pointing to where it should be. > Weird thing was i > did a fresh install on my laptop while working on my main machine last > night and was > getting the exact same issue on a fresh install. but again applying > this fix made it work > fine. So the question is now is, is it a logwatch issue or a sendmail > issue and if so > where and how to fix > it. I'm gonna write up a full bug report hopefully tonight and look > upstream as well to > see if there are any bugs filed with RH about this as well. > > LostSon > > http://lostsonsvault.org It seems to be a path issue... The environment that logwatch is running under doesn't have /usr/sbin in its path, so it needs the full reference.