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

Mike Tremaine <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.log.logwatch.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mike Tremaine wrote:
> 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]
> 


I guess I should have said yes we will need to do away with the symlink 
and make a one line "shell" script. Once the interface is done I'll 
remember to get that in the rpm and install script. The deb package is 
ofcourse up to you Willi ;).

-Mike
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