LogWatch and Postfix?

From: K. Hawkes (k.hawkes_at_darknyte.force9.co.uk)
Date: 11/29/03

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    Hey all,

    Up until I installed Postfix on my RH9 box, Logwatch was happily throwing me
    E-Mails every day, just like I wanted.

    Now that I've installed and configured Postfix, I no longer get the E-Mails
    from logwatch at all. I've done some digging and have found that it's trying
    to use 'mailx' (/bin/mail), this worked before without postfix, but now it
    fails, saying it can't move a file. Looking at /bin/mail it seems that it's
    not designed to work with Postfix's way of handling mailboxes (I'm using
    mailboxes, not maildirs).

    I see 'sendmail.postfix' and tell Logwatch to try that one, it fails also.
    The ONLY way I can find to get the logwatch logs again is if I use a script
    to send the log contents out to me, but there is no subject line and it's
    not as clean as I'd like.

    Run logwatch like this :
    /usr/sbin/logwatch --debug HIGH > ~/debug.out

    Here is the error I get when it tries to use /bin/mail :

    cannot move file: /var/spool/temp/1070121234000.30688.srv.darknyte.net.mail

    I am totally stumped about this, I've tried various things and all have
    failed. Is it something I've done, a misconfiguration with LogWatch or
    Postfix somewhere? Does anyone else manage to use LogWatch and PostFix
    together?

    If anyone has any useful or helpful suggestions I'd be most grateful.

    Mr. K. Hawkes

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