Logwatch: how to stop it going to root?

[Timothy Murphy]

Brian Clark 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.
> 
> Try adding this to /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf:
> 
> MailTo = tim

Thanks.
That did the trick.

After I made the change, I ran
[root at alfred conf]# /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch
and the logwatch mail was indeed sent to me.


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