RE: forwarding logs
From: Smith, Albert (Albert.Smith_at_genexservices.com)
Date: 04/05/05
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Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:13:16 -0400 To: "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Ignore my last message
Albert Smith
Sr. Unix Systems Administrator
HPCSA, RHCT
Genex Services
440 E. Swedesford Rd.
Wayne, PA 19087
albert.smith@genexservices.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Burke, Thomas G.
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 2:09 PM
> To: David.Bear@asu.edu; General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: RE: forwarding logs
>
> Yes, I am getting e-mails. It seems to follow as I said
> below... Interesting - if I mail to root, I get the mail,
> but as I said, it there seemd to be a dependance on having a
> domain on the address in the scripts. I did not start
> getting any mails from cron until I modified its mailto
> option. Same with another script. Seems I saw something
> about this when looking through sendmail docs, but I don't
> recall the specifics.
>
> Someone else asked what version - I'm running RH 6.2 with all
> updates up to, but not including 7.1 releases - kernel
> 2.2.24... I've not upgraded, as my ipchains firewall works
> wonderfully, & I don't have the time to sit down & learn
> iptables. Besides, 6.2 has been working great for 5 years or so, now.
>
> -Tom
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com
> [mailto:redhat-list-bounces@redhat.com]On Behalf Of David Bear
> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:33 PM
> To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
> Subject: Re: forwarding logs
>
>
>
> 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@redhat.com [
> > mailto:redhat-list-bounces@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@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
> > --
> > Reuben D. Budiardja
> > Dept. Physics and Astronomy
> > University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
> >
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