Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Hosting Security and Technology : Logwatch cron does not work in CentOS 6.0

[ZKuJoe]

I've tried everything to get it to work but it will not work on any of my servers running CentOS 6.0 while it is running fine on my CentOS 5.6 servers without any configuration (besides the e-mail address). It works correctly if I run "logwatch" from the CLI but I cannot configure it as a cronjob, it just doesn't work no matter what command I try.

Any ideas?

[barbus]

Check cron logs.

[SavOak]

From the logwatch README:

How do I use it?

Well, it should pretty much work on its own, sending you an
email every night. For more configuration options, run
'logwatch --help' or edit /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf
or /etc/logwatch/logwatch.conf.

See the file HOWTO-Customize-LogWatch for more information.

You can also use it from the command line (as documented in the
man page).


I could run it successfully from the command line also and view the output on screen, but couldn't get it to work using cron in cPanel. What I DID have to do was customize the default conf file. This file is very well commented, and I only made 3 changes: email address, range (Yesterday) and detail level.

So I think trying to run it from cron might be redundant. I had it working on my old VPS, and when I checked the crontab there, found I didn't have an entry for it. In that case I did a yum install, though. On my new server it was already installed.

Logwatch seems to have it's own cron function. But now that I've modified that default conf file - I ran it from the CLI once, just to check that it was working - it sends me an email every night, running about 3:00 am (server time).

If you're still having trouble you might want to go to the source and check the logwatch.org web site. Let us know how this worked out for you.