Logs

[Franck Y]

Hello everyone

I tried to do the same in a different foler /home/scan/ and it works

Apparently logwatch is not case sensitive.


Franck

On 10/7/05, Franck Y <franck110 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The casing is correct,
> everything is Franck with an "F" is capital letter.
> When the system print the error it print franck, with an "f" is small letter
>
> Thank you
>
> Franck
> On 10/7/05, replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net
> <replies-lists-redhat at listmail.innovate.net> wrote:
> > you're using different casing on "franck" in different places which
> > *could* be the problem. make certain that you have the casing consistent
> > (that the casing in the save path matches the casing of your home
> > directory).  [logwatch runs as root so it shouldn't have trouble writing
> > the file as long as the pathing is correct.]
> >
> >
> > ------------ Original Message ------------
> > > Date: Friday, October 07, 2005 09:51:00 AM -0400
> > > From: Franck Y <franck110 at gmail.com>
> > > To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> > > Subject: Re: Logs
> > >
> > > Hello everyone
> > > Logwatch is awesome. I don't have to do a "less" on each file.
> > >
> > > I tried to send me the report thought mail but i didn't set up SMTP
> > > server. So i changed to the file saving option.
> > > I created a file on the user Franck like this
> > > " vi /home/Franck/log.log"
> > > did a "chmod 750 "
> > > and
> > > [root at master ~]# logwatch --service all --range yesterday --detail high
> > >  --save /home/Franck/log.log
> > >
> > > I get this message
> > > "Can't open output file: /home/franck/log.log"
> > >
> > > Can you explain me why it's not working ?
> > >
> > > Thank you
> > >
> > > Sincerely
> > > --
> > > Franck
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 10/6/05, David Henry Wild <dhwlinux at talktalk.net> wrote:
> > >> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 22:20 -0500, micheal wrote:
> > >> > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 18:44 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> > >> > > At 1:28 AM -0500 10/3/05, micheal wrote:
> > >> > > > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 02:53 -0300, Franck Y wrote:
> > >> > > >> Hi everyone,
> > >> > > >>
> > >> > > >> What are the main file (logs), that I sould check if the
> > >> > > >> computer is going well
> > >> > > >> .
> > >> > > >>
> > >> > > >>
> > >> > > >> --
> > >> > > >> Franck
> > >> > > >>
> > >> > > >
> > >> > > > basically all the log files are in /var/logs
> > >> > >
> > >> > > Logwatch sends an email to root each day summarizing anything it
> > >> > > thinks is interesting (or rather, that it doesn't believe is
> > >> > > uninteresting).  You'd need to log in as root and read the mail;
> > >> > > maybe someone here has a better approach.
> > >> > > _________________________________________________________________
> > >> > > ___ TonyN.:'
> > >> > > <mailto:tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> '
> > >> > >       <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
> > >> > >
> > >> >
> > >> > Here is what I have done.  Edit /etc/aliases as root. Around the
> > >> > last line of the file there is something similiar to
> > >> >
> > >> >   # Person who should get root's mail
> > >> >       root:                   micheal
> > >> >
> > >> > I have it going to my local spool, however you can edit this with
> > >> > any e-mail address you wish.
> > >> >
> > >> > After you are done. run the command newaliases as root.
> > >> >
> > >> > Now all you have to do is check the mail for the e-mail you have
> > >> > set up as an 'alias' for root, and you are set.
> > >> >
> > >> > Micheal
> > >> >
> > >> I've done this to redirect mail to another, non Linux, computer which
> > >> is on my network by sending it to dhwild at talktalk.net. The message
> > >> actually arrives, attached to an error message which says that it
> > >> should have a real email address rather than root at localhost.
> > >>
> > >> How do I arrange that, please?
> > >>
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> > >>
> > >
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> >
> > ---------- End Original Message ----------
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Franck
>


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Franck