cron scripts for maintenance

[Stephen Carville]

Anne wrote:
> HI All
>  
> I'm used to running FreeBSD which comes with it's own massive maintenance
> scripts which are setup to email all information (via cron) automatically
> daily. It's incredibly helpful and helps me manage 20 servers with ease.
>  
> My problem now is that I manage another 30 Red Hat 4 servers but it does
> not
> come with any of those very helpful scripts, and the system that emails
> the
> results to me daily, weekly and monthly. 
>  
> Is there any type of Red Hat ES 4 compatible maintenance scripting system
> like this available for administrators? I'm willing to pay! :)
>  
> Thank you! -Anne
>  

If you haven't already done so. edit /etc/aliases and, near the bottom, 
set a recipient for root's mail:

# Person who should get root's mail
root:           whomever at mydomain.com

run newaliases

This will send the daily logwatch email to whomever instead of local root.

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