Bug 1126408

Summary:	MailTo specified in config file ignored
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Reporter:	Martin Frodl <mfrodl>
Component:	logwatch	Assignee:	Jan Synacek <jsynacek>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
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Description Martin Frodl 2014-08-04 11:36:15 UTC

Description of problem:

There are two ways to specify the e-mail recipient of logwatch reports: the MailTo directive in configuration file and the --mailto command-line option, the latter overriding the former. While the command-line way seems to work correctly, MailTo recipient defined in config file is ignored. Instead of sending mail, the logwatch report is printed to standard output.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
logwatch-7.4.0-28.20130522svn140.el7

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:

Keep the default configuration file /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf, which contains the line 'MailTo = root' already. Set the time range to 'all' by doing either of the following:

a. change 'Range = yesterday' to 'Range = all' in logwatch.conf,
   then run 'logwatch'
or
b. run 'logwatch --range all'

Run 'mail' to check whether root's inbox contains any new messages.

Actual results:
The report is printed to standard output.
No mail for root.

Expected results:
logwatch produces no output.
There is a new message in /var/spool/mail/root.

Additional info:

When mail recipient is set by the --mailto command-line option instead of the MailTo directive, the actual behaviour coincides with the expected.

This bug does not exist on either RHEL 5 or 6.

Comment 2 Jan Synacek 2014-08-05 09:17:19 UTC

By default, Output is set to 'stdout'. Change it to 'mail' if you want logwatch to send emails instead of printing to the console. The '--mailto' argument overrides the Output configuration option, therefore it is mailed correctly.