[gentoo-user] OT - An annoying habit of logwatch (possibly cron?)

[gentoo-user] OT - An annoying habit of logwatch (possibly cron?)

[Michael Sullivan]

I have three computers on my network.  All three of them have logwatch
installed.  Each one stays on pretty much all the time (I don't like
rebooting - it takes too long.)  Each morning I wake up and read my
email.  You'd think I'd get three logwatch reports - one from each
computer, right?  Nope.  I get at least six, sometimes more.  I look at
the time stamps; the first ones are sent out at 3:00am.  The next set it
sent out at 3:05 with the exact same information.  It's very annoying.
How can I set it where I only get one logwatch report for each computer?
-Michael Sullivan-

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Re: [gentoo-user] OT - An annoying habit of logwatch (possibly cron?)

[Sean Johnson]

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I too noticed this a while back, and when looking in /etc/cron.daily I
saw two files:

00-logwatch
logwatch

According to equery f logwatch | grep cron.daily, 00-logwatch is the
file that is associated with the currently installed logwatch package.
So my assumption is that the other file is a left over from a previous
version of logwatch.

At any rate, I removed the /etc/cron.daily/logwatch file, and now I
receive only one report from each of my logwatched systems. ;)

Hope that helps,

Sean

Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I have three computers on my network.  All three of them have logwatch
> installed.  Each one stays on pretty much all the time (I don't like
> rebooting - it takes too long.)  Each morning I wake up and read my
> email.  You'd think I'd get three logwatch reports - one from each
> computer, right?  Nope.  I get at least six, sometimes more.  I look at
> the time stamps; the first ones are sent out at 3:00am.  The next set it
> sent out at 3:05 with the exact same information.  It's very annoying.
> How can I set it where I only get one logwatch report for each computer?
> -Michael Sullivan-
> 

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