what is logwatch doing?

[Andrew Bacchi]

The job originates in /etc/cron.daily/00-logwatch. You can disable it by
removing it from /etc/cron.daily. But I don't know why you would want
to, it provides me valuable information every day.

mcclnx mcc wrote:

>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?
>
>2. Can I disable it?
>
>Thanks.
>
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Andrew Bacchi
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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