Re: [Logwatch] Fwd: Default to STDOUT: is it really a good thing?

Willi Mann wrote:
>> Also, anything coming from cron is "something that went wrong" (apart from 
>> debugging) and I have my incoming mail filtered accordingly.
> 
> I agree, but logwatch without options should still print on command-line
> IMHO.
> 
> When called from cron, it should get an option that makes it send mail
> instead.
> 
> So my proposal:
> 1) Change the symlink in /etc/cron.daily to a bash script, so you can
> set command-line options.

Thought about that also. [But see below]

> 2) Either allow the mailto option to take no parameter or add another
> option (email) that can be used in the cron bash script to
> switch from print to email without specifing an email address.
> 

In the proposed change I set out the "--output mail" option will do the 
right thing.

Just to post it again here is the proposed new options.

New:

--output stdout [default], mail
--format text [default], html
--encode
--save [flips output stdout]
--mailto [flips output mail]

-Mike