Logwatch Problems

Vieira · #1 19th December 2006, 10:21 PM

I created a cron job with the following command:

Code:

/usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl

and it appears to run fine, however this errors occurs:

Code:

Can't exec "sendmail": No such file or directory at /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl line 941, <TESTFILE> line 3.

Logwatch is configured to send a report to my email. When I run logwatch manually it sends the mail, however with the cron job it doesn't.
Any sugestions? Thanks in advance.

digen · #2 19th December 2006, 11:53 PM

Can you paste the entire cron job here ?

Vieira · #3 20th December 2006, 12:43 AM

crontab -u root -e

Code:

59 5 * * 1,5 /etc/webmin/time/sync.pl #The Webmin Clock Sync
@weekly /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl #The Logwatch Perl Script...

AlexThomson_NZ · #4 20th December 2006, 01:09 AM

A bit of a guess, but maybe sendmail isn't on the user's path when running as a crob job? Maybe try fully qualifying the path to the executable. Can you post line 941 of your logwatch.pl file (where I assume it is trying to execute sendmail)

Vieira · #5 20th December 2006, 12:20 PM

Line 932 to 944.

Code:

   if ($Config{'print'} eq 1) {
      *OUTFILE = *STDOUT;
   } elsif ($Config{'save'} ne "") {
      open(OUTFILE,">" . $Config{'save'}) or die "Can't open output file: $Config{'save'} $!\n";
   } else {
      if (($Config{'multiemail'} eq 1) || ($emailopen eq "")) {
         #Use mailer = in logwatch.conf to set options. Default should be "sendmail -t"
         #In theory this should be able to handle many different mailers. I might need to add
         #some filter code on $Config{'mailer'} to make it more robust. -mgt
         open(OUTFILE,"|$Config{'mailer'}") or die "Can't execute $Config{'mailer'}: $!\n";
         print OUTFILE "To: $Config{'mailto'}\n";
         print OUTFILE "From: $Config{'mailfrom'}\n";
         print OUTFILE "Subject: Logwatch for $Config{'hostname'} (${OStitle})\n";

and in the logwatch.conf

Code:

# By default we assume that all Unix systems have sendmail or a sendmail-like system.
# The mailer code Prints a header with To: From: and Subject:.
# At this point you can change the mailer to any thing else that can handle that output
# stream. TODO test variables in the mailer string to see if the To/From/Subject can be set
# From here with out breaking anything. This would allow mail/mailx/nail etc..... -mgt 
mailer = "sendmail -t"

Sendmail is not installed, but postfix is and the server is sending mail fine with the sendmail command. Sorry for my bad english.
Thanks for your replies.

ms1234 · #6 7th January 2007, 10:23 PM

Check with whereis sendmail (should be in /usr/sbin/) and edit the config file to include the path.

Vieira · #7 13th January 2007, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ms1234

Check with whereis sendmail (should be in /usr/sbin/) and edit the config file to include the path.

It solved the problem. Thank you very much for your help.