On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 at 22:50, Robert Moskowitz via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an Ubuntu server with logwatch installed, so it has all the
'right' postfix setups and I get daily logwatch reports.
I also added a cron shutdown as follows:
10 4 * * * root /usr/sbin/shutdown
And I get a daily email saying the system will shutdown in ~1min. Nice.
I want to get emails from my Fedora notebook for crontab activities. I
particular, I want to do a nightly rsync to an rsynd and get the results
of this printed.
something like:
10 4 * * * rgm /usr/bin/time --password-file=pasw --verbose
/usr/bin/rsync -ah --stats /home/rgm/r/ rsync://rgm@homestor/rgm/r/
should do it for the rsync; in fact it does rsync the files, but no
report is emailed. Not local or other.
First figure out if your MTA is working, then you can figure out what you want to *actually* send, whether Logwatch rolled-up reports, or just the individual crontabs. There's almost certainly a bunch of ways you can slice this.
If you try just sending a
mail using mailx (installing first, if necessary), on the Fedora system
does that work? cf: https://commandmasters.com/commands/mailx-common/
Once you know if Postfix works, then if it doesn't, you can examine your working Postfix setup from the other machine and port over.
Is your preference to have Logwatch on Fedora do the same thing
it's doing on your Ubuntu machine? Or just have that single crontab for
Fedora send mail?
If it's the latter, *then* you can either add MAILTO to your crontab (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-crontab-change-mailto-settings/), or just pipe the output to mailx.
Or alternatively, configure Logwatch (which I haven't done for a LONG time but I remember it not being terribly hard.) If you fix your MTA it'll probably Just Start Working I suspect.
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