Logwatch: how to stop it going to root?

[Craig White]

On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 21:46 -0500, Jake McHenry wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 01:43 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> >> Logwatch used to be sent to me on my Fedora system,
> >> but now it seems to go to root.
> >> I changed the line in /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch to
> >> $Config{'mailto'} = "tim";
> >> but this didn't seem to have any effect.
> >> 
> >> Has anyone else met this problem?
> > ----
> > rather than that approach, it seems much more logical to
> > edit /etc/aliases to direct mail for user 'root: tim' (and if you are
> > using postfix, run the command 'postaliases' or if you are using
> > sendmail, run the command 'newaliases')
> 
> 
> and what if he only wants logwatch, not the rest of roots mail?
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then this wouldn't have been a very good suggestion

Craig