Logwatch report on another machine?

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Wed Jun 4 19:03:31 UTC 2008


On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 19:52 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
> 
> 
> >> > Speaking of which, you could try changing the "mailto" field in
> >> > /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf.
> >> 
> >> This file was empty (except for a comment line) on my Fedora-9 system.
> >> But I've added
> >> -------------------------------
> >> MailTo = tim at alfred.gayleard.com
> >> MailFrom = Logwatch
> >> -------------------------------
> >> and will see if this does the trick.
> > ----
> > it won't
> > 
> > # host alfred.gayleard.com
> > Host alfred.gayleard.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> > 
> > # host helen.gayleard.com
> > Host helen.gayleard.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> > 
> > # host gayleard.com
> > gayleard.com has address 86.43.71.228
> > gayleard.com mail is handled by 10 mail.gayleard.com.
> > 
> > no known host names for alfred.gayleard.com or helen.gayleard.com but
> > there is a gayleard.com and a mail.gayleard.com - those are usable...
> 
> I realize that these names are not known to the real world.
> But I imagine that there must be some way of sending email
> from one machine on a LAN to another
> without going outside the LAN.
> Or at least a way of sending the logwatch report "along the LAN".
> 
> In fact, I know I used to do this.
> IIRC this was effected simply by giving the name of the machine
> that I wanted the logwatch to be sent to, in /etc/aliases .
> But if that ever worked it does not appear to now.
> 
> I suspect that there has been some change in sendmail,
> or at least in the default sendmail.mc .
----
You would have to have dns set up locally (on your lan) and configure a
particular server (or more than one) to accept mail for those
domains...that's the way e-mail works.

Craig




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