I did verify that sendmail -t did work -- here is the output of grep mail logwatch.trace -- grep sendmail did not find anything. "cat /var/log/mail.log 2>/dev/nu"...], [/* 23 vars */]) = 0 21762 execve("/bin/cat", ["cat", "/var/log/mail.log"], [/* 22 vars */]) = 0 21848 execve("/usr/bin/mail", ["/usr/bin/mail"], [/* 25 vars */] <unfinished ...> The mailer configuration variable is /usr/bin/mail as it has been.
on Sunday 05/21/2006 Willi Mann([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > John Covici schrieb: > > Package: logwatch > > Version: 7.2.1-2 > > Severity: important > > > > I just upgraded to latest in testing and whenever I run logwatch it just > > says "no mail for root" as > > though there was no argument to the mail command -- yet I have root in my > > configs and I verified that I can mail to root. > > From which version? > > Please run > strace -e trace=process -f -o logwatch.trace logwatch > grep sendmail logwatch.trace > > and send me the output. I want to see the sendmail parameters. > > How did you verify root can mail root? > > Please test: > > # sendmail -t > To: root > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: test > > . > Ctrl+D > > That's basically what logwatch does. > > Willi -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]