* Christofer C. Bell <christofer.c.bell@gmail.com> [03-30-13 13:50]:

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> wrote:

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openSUSE 12.3 x86_64

logwatch does not send email from cron job

Patrick,

In /etc/logwatch/conf, you'll need to add the line "Output = mail".

Like so:

# Local configuration options go here (defaults are in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf) Output = mail

I don't know how 11.2 was configured, but this change has been necessary for me on both 12.2 and 12.3.

Thanks, that does work for 12.3 for me. Checking /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl in both systems, I see that 12.3 has v 7.4.0 and 11.2 has v 7.3.6 and the logwatch.pl's are quite different. I cannot see any default assignment in 7.3.6 but 7.4.0 shows: $Config{'output'} = "stdout"; #8.0 But my coding is *very* suspect :^) and the --changelog file is worthless for anything but an email addr and version announcement. :^( The svn at sourceforge is also either somewhat dumb about changelogs or a reflection of my search skills :^( tks, I am now functional -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org