This How To Logwatch Email Notification helps to properly configure receiving emails send by Logwatch automatically. The good message is, configuring email notifications is very easy.
How To Logwatch Email Notification
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Background
This little how to assumes that you have a running Logwatch configuration and that you like to configure your Logwatch in a way it is sending you notifications by Emails.
Furthermore, this how to assumes that you have sendmail running on your system.
How To Logwatch Email Notification
To enable your Logwatch sending emails, you first like to find your logwatch.conf file. This is key, because this is the file in which you need to change the configuration to enable Logwatch sending emails to you. Next to other options, below two options that you can use to find your logwatch.conf.
locate logwatch.conf
Alternative, use
find / -name logwatch.conf
Once you identified you found your logwatch.conf file, in my case it is “/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf”, than you can start editing it by executing
vi /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf
Within your logwatch.conf config file, you need in a minimum to edit the following parameter:
MailTo = YOURemailAddress@YOURdomain.com
MailFrom = YourSenderEmailAddress@YourDomain.com
Detail = SelectYourDetailLevel
mailer = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"As for the parameters:
- MailTo: Select the email address to which you like Logwatch to send emails
- MailFrom: Type the email address that should show up as the sender email address
- Detail: Select the level of detail for the reporting. Can by “Low”, “Med” or “High”
- Mailer: Select the mailer installed on your system. In my above example its “/usr/sbin/sendmail”. If you have a different mailer, then you need to update this line
Once these parameters were updated correctly, then you are done. Enjoy!
Additional Information
Install Logwatch by executing the following:
apt-get install logwatch
Install sendmail by executing the following:
apt-get install sendmail
