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

On Sat, 26 May 2007, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:

> On Sat, 26 May 2007, Kirk Bauer wrote:
>
>> More dissenters... I am not sure I understand his problem... but I've never
>> used the HTML format either.
>
> For starters. When log watch is sending it's own email the subjct is:
> Subject: Logwatch for faramir.hugo.vanderkooij.org (Linux)
>
> But with the crontab output it reads:
> Subject: Cron <root@faramir> /usr/sbin/logwatch
>
> Or something similar. The first one (old style) makes a lot more sense.

The only drawback is that the PATH for sendmail as utility has not been 
defined:

Can't exec "sendmail": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/logwatch line
1025, <TESTFILE> line 2.
Can't execute sendmail -t: No such file or directory

Since the use and location of sendmail is defined by standards we may as 
well use the standard here:
http://www.linux-foundation.org/spec/refspecs/LSB_2.1.0/LSB-generic/LSB-generic/baselib-sendmail-1.html

And a bit funny is that the config file is not use a capitol on this line:

 	mailer = "sendmail -t"

So I think we should ship it with the default:

 	Mailer = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t"

Hugo.

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