FC5 - Logwatch reports stopped

[Paul Howarth]

On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 21:17 -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> Ed Kim wrote:
> > Don Russell wrote:
> >> Ed Kim wrote:
> >>> Don Russell wrote:
> >>>> Usually I receive a Logwatch report via e-mail everyday, 
> >>>> timestamped at 0402 LOCAL TIME.
> >>>>
> >>>> Today is the second day in a row I did not receive a report at all?
> >>>>
> >>>> I tried running logwatch as root with --print but after a minute or 
> >>>> so, there is nothing displayed and the command prompt is displayed 
> >>>> again?
> >>>>
> >>>> What would cause logwatch to stop reporting things? Where are the 
> >>>> log files it uses to build the daily report?
> >>>>
> >>>> The report showed things such as which updates were installed, 
> >>>> current disk space, log in attempts (successful and failed)
> >>>>
> >>>> It's not as if none of those things happened.
> >>>>
> >>>> How does Logwatch get started each day? crontab -l doesn't show 
> >>>> anything for root?
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks for any suggestions... :-)
> >>>>
> >>> logwatch monitors log files and services as defined in 
> >>> /etc/log.d/conf/... usually these log files reside in /var/log
> >>>
> >>> the crontab -l is a user crontab, there's also a system crontab 
> >>> defined in /etc/crontab
> >>>
> >>> could your /tmp be full?
> >>
> >>
> >> There's lots of space on the drive.... can individual directories 
> >> have limits? i.e. /tmp is "full", even though the drive is not?
> >> Even if that were the case, I'd expect some sort of errror message 
> >> from logwatch when run via CLI. :-(
> >>
> >> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> >> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
> >>                      37285432  10788896  24602548  31% /
> >> /dev/hda1               101086     13862     82005  15% /boot
> >> none                    517724         0    517724   0% /dev/shm
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > hmm... have you tried to run 'logwatch --debug 100'
> > hopefully, it'll pinpoint where it's failing..
> >
> Well.... a bunch more experimenting and here's what I've learned....
> 
> I *can* run logwatch manually and get the report for the two days missed.
> But, if I specify the --mail option, I don't get the e-mail'd report.
> 
> If I use this command:
> Mail -s "local test message" don at boris < /etc/fedora-release
> 
> I do not get an error,nor do I receive the test message. I tried several 
> different e-mail addresses:
>    - a single user id on the local machine
>    - a userid at localhost
>    - a fuly-qualified internet e-mail address
> 
> But, on another userid I have a perl script than runs periodically and 
> sends an e-mail report to me at regular intervals.... *that* works fine.
> 
> So, I'm confident this means *logwatch* isworking ok... it's just the 
> delivery of the report that's a problem.
> 
> But it used to work fine... as I mentioned, it's just the last two days 
> that I did not receive it.

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Paul.