[ale] changing recipient of daily system status emails....

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 18:11, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 17:52, Keith Morris wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > Sorry, but here is another newbie question.  I am running Fedora Core 1 
> > and by default it sends daily system status emails the local mail spool 
> > of 'root'.  I was wondering a couple of things...
> > 
> > 1. What process is actually sending the email? is it a cron job, system 
> > service, or what? (00-logwatch???)
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > 2. How does one change the recipient of the email so that it goes to my 
> > internet email address (as this is a remote server and I would like to 
> > receive the emails at home).  I found the $Config{'mailto'}="root"; in 
> > 00-logwatch cron job, but when I changed it to to my email address 
> > (escaping the \@) the script ran, but I didn't receive any email....
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> > 
> > Keith Morris
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
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> 
> Well, you found the program.  Logwatch will send you a daily report.  It
> is pretty handy at times, and annoying the rest of the time.
> 
> Assuming Sendmail:  
> In /etc/aliases (may be /etc/mail/aliases) look for the line that says
> #root: marc
> Uncomment the line, and change "marc" to your address.  Save and run
> "newaliases".
> 
> Postfix:  I have no clue (yet).

/etc/postfix/aliases  do the edit and run 
postmap aliases

There may be more. I don't have a postfix machine open right now.

A better solution is to set the MailTo line the logwatch cron job. On
most RedHat bxes, edit /etc/log.d/logwatch.conf and change the "MailTo =
" line.
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