Description of problem: Logwatch reports sendmail which is not installed actually. Running logwatch with high detail, sendmail report is included. RPM default detail value runs fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): logwatch-5.2.2-1.EL4.1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. [root@pluto ~]# rpm -qa | grep sendmail [root@pluto ~]# [root@pluto ~]# rpm -q postfix postfix-2.1.5-4.2.RHEL4 2. vi /etc/log.d/logwatch.conf set Detail = 10 Actual results: --------------------- sendmail Begin ------------------------ ERROR: Could not open /etc/mail/local-host-names ERROR: Could not open /etc/mail/access Message Size Distribution: Range # Msgs KBytes 0 - 10k 0 0 10k - 20k 0 0 20k - 50k 0 0 50k - 100k 0 0 100k - 500k 0 0 500k - 1Mb 0 0 1Mb - 2Mb 0 0 2Mb - 5Mb 0 0 5Mb - 10Mb 0 0 10Mb+ 0 0 ---------------------------------- TOTAL 0 0 ---------------------- sendmail End -------------------------
The sendmail service log is displayed if /var/log/maillog file is nonempty. Probably you uninstalled sendmail package and there remains old log file. If you remove this file, logwatch will not display sendmail section. If there is any problem please reopen this bug.