what is logwatch doing?

Alexandru E. Ungur alexandru at globalterrasoft.ro
Tue Jan 3 14:05:02 UTC 2006


>>> sender: "mcclnx mcc" date: "Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:55:38PM +0800" <<<EOQ
> We have  Redhat AS 3.0 on DELL server.  Everyday on
> 4:02 A.M. there has E-MAIl to  "root" sat "logwatch". 
>  I check ed "root" cron job and can not find anything
> relate to  it.
> 
> Does anyone know:
> 
> 1. which daemon cause it?
None. Is a perl script.

rpm -qi logwatch
rpm -ql logwatch|grep cron

> 2. Can I disable it?
yes, delete the cronjob OR remove it completely
rpm -e logwatch


Alex




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