forwarding logs

[David Bear]

are you getting any emails? maybe its not the syslog system, but the
mail system.

try going into a standard user account, create a .forward file, then
as root, sent a mail message to that user. check the destination
mailbox to make sure it was delivered. Then check /var/log/messages or
/var/log/maillog to see if there are any usefull error messages.

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 09:04:34AM -0400, Burke, Thomas G. wrote:
> I've done all this (except the permission checking)...  No change so far.  What *should* the permissions be?
>  
>     -Tom
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]On Behalf Of Reuben D. Budiardja
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:34 AM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: forwarding logs
> 
> 
> 
> On Tuesday 05 April 2005 08:25, Burke, Thomas G. wrote: 
> > All, 
> > 
> >  Just reinstalled my server, and am having problems getting the logs 
> > forwarded where I want.  In the past, I've had all logs forwarded to my 
> > work e-mail.  I have one set working, but only because I have changed 
> > root's email address deep down inside some scripts.  I've put a ".forward" 
> > in root's home directory, but the system does not seem to be forwarding 
> > mail.  What am I doing wrong? 
> 
> I usually just edit the /etc/aliases file to have an email for root forwarded 
> to a different account: 
> 
> root: me at workemail.com 
> 
> Then run 'newaliases'. 
> 
> If you use .forward file, the pitfall is usually with the permission of 
> the .forward file. Take a look at /var/log/maillog or /var/log/messages (ie. 
> grep for ".forward"). 
> 
> You should not need to cange anything in the log script itself. 
> 
> RDB 
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> Reuben D. Budiardja 
> Dept. Physics and Astronomy 
> University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 
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