[sf-lug] logwatch configuration

[Alex Kleider]

With some coaching from Jim at the JavaCat, I've got logwatch running on the machine at my other network.
It turns out that a file called logwatch.conf is in each of the following directories on the computer that has been running successfully for a long time.
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf
/usr/share/logwatch/dist.conf/logwatch.conf

Which one logwatch is using, I'm not sure, and how it knows where to look for its config file I also have no idea. 

So although there are still a few loose ends in terms of my understanding of the issues, I have accomplished my goal of getting logwatch running on my other site.

alex

a_kleider at yahoo.com


--- On Sun, 8/3/08, Alex Kleider <a_kleider at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Alex Kleider <a_kleider at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [sf-lug] logwatch configuration
> To: "Linux userGroup" <sf-lug at linuxmafia.com>
> Date: Sunday, August 3, 2008, 8:59 AM
> yes they are and that's exactly what I was thinking
> look forward to seeing "y'all!"
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Sun, 8/3/08, jim <jim at well.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: jim <jim at well.com>
> > Subject: Re: [sf-lug] logwatch configuration
> > To: a_kleider at yahoo.com
> > Cc: "Linux userGroup"
> <sf-lug at linuxmafia.com>
> > Date: Sunday, August 3, 2008, 8:02 AM
> > interesting problem. 
> >    are your two networks available from the 
> > internet (so we can log in and poke around)? 
> > if not, can you make them so for the time 
> > period of the meeting? 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 23:17 -0700, Alex Kleider wrote:
> > > I could use some help figuring out logwatch
> > configuration!
> > > I'm expecting to be at the JavaCat in the am
> and
> > perhaps the expertise needed will be there.
> > > I have two networks: kleico.net and kleider.ca
> > > On kleico.net I've had logwatch in operation
> for
> > many months now and it's been functioning very
> well BUT
> > on the Debian computer that is running logwatch on
> that
> > network there is no /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
> file!
> > This is not a problem but it is something that I
> can't
> > for the life of me understand. Its relevance has to do
> with
> > the fact that I was turning to it  to see how to
> configure
> > my other network.
> > > 
> > > On the second network (another home: kleider.ca)
> > I've installed logwatch on an Ubuntu system but
> when I 
> > > # logwatch
> > > the result is 
> > > /var/cache/logwatch No such file or directory at
> > /usr/sbin/logwatch line 753.
> > > There is a /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf file
> on
> > that machine and I am worried that the problem may be
> the
> > following line:
> > > mailer="sendmail -t"
> > > $ man sendmail
> > > gives me the man page to exim4 so I'm
> assuming
> > that sendmail is symbolically linked to exim4.
> > > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> > > I'm thinking that perhaps that line should be
> > changed to 
> > > mailer="mutt"
> > > since I am able to send emails out to the
> internet
> > using mutt under the computer in question's
> current
> > configuration.
> > > Looking forward to seeing fellow Linux
> enthusiasts at
> > the JavaCat tomorrow and if any of you have
> suggestions, all
> > the better.
> > > 
> > > alex
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > a_kleider at yahoo.com
> > > 
> > > 
> > >       
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