Now that I have a test CentOS9 system set up, I am trying to get it to
send me logwatch reports via email. S-nail is proving very frustrating.
It almost works ... But not quite!
The main problem is bogus characters in the logwatch report. Here is a
section of the report I get through email:
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=20
################### Logwatch 7.5.5 (01/22/21) ####################=20
Processing Initiated: Thu Jan 19 13:31:57 2023
Date Range Processed: yesterday
( 2023-Jan-18 )
Period is day.
Detail Level of Output: 5
Type of Output/Format: email / text
Logfiles for Host: centos7.billgee.local
##################################################################=20
=20
--------------------- Kernel Audit Begin ------------------------=20
Number of audit daemon starts: 1=20
=20
**Unmatched Entries**
audit: type=3D1403 audit(1674073255.247:3): auid=3D4294967295
ses=3D429=
4967295 lsm=3Dselinux res=3D1: 1 Time(s)
auditd[517]: audit dispatcher initialized with q_depth=3D1200 and 1
act=
ive plugins: 1 Time(s)
=20
---------------------- Kernel Audit End -------------------------=20
=20
--------------------- Chrony report Begin ------------------------=20
MS Name/IP address Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample
=
=20
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=
=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
^* server3.17.168.192.IN-AD> 4 6 377 42 -16us[ -23us] ± 9=
716us
Name/IP Address NP NR Span Frequency Freq Skew Offset
Std=
Dev
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What are all those =20 and =30 strings for? How do I make them go away?
I have been experimenting with a line in /etc/s-nail.rc.
set ttycharset=utf-8
That is the only value for this that produces anything useful. If I set
it to charset-7bit or charset-8bit, then s-nail complains about invalid
syntax on the "set mta=" line. What????
I just don't get it. Can someone shed some light on this?
For what it is worth, a test CentOS8 system using mailx (the REAL
mailx!) works perfectly. So do all of my CentOS7 and Fedora systems.
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Bill Gee