tOMPSON's blog » mailto http://dertompson.com some personal, more technical - by Thomas Einwaller Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:24:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Debian logwatch mailto settings http://dertompson.com/2009/05/25/debian-logwatch-mailto-setting/ http://dertompson.com/2009/05/25/debian-logwatch-mailto-setting/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 19:50:32 +0000 tompson http://dertompson.com/?p=758 TuxI am used to configuring logwatch on my linux servers to get information about what is going on with my systems (although I do not look into the logwatch mails every day).

Lately I had some problems configuring my email adress on the Debian and Ubuntu systems. The logwatch process sent the mail to my system user every day even if I added a MailTo line into my /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf file.

The reason was that the logwatch process was started from the script /etc/cron.daily/00logwatch with the following line:

/usr/sbin/logwatch --mailto tom

I got mail the morning after changing tom to my full qualified email address.

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