I currently have logrotate rotating my logs once a day via a cron job. I would like to set it up to email me as well. I installed postfix.

I have tested to send mail from the command line with this line and it works fine:

From the logrotate man, the default mail command is /bin/mail -s. I checked my system and there is no such command, so I am using the -m switch to substitute my own mail command. I have modified my cron job to the following but am still having problems with mail

Thanks.

Logrotate is usualling invoked by cron. Why don't you just add the MAILTO option in your crontab? In some or all cases, it's called from within one of the cron.* directories in /etc, like /etc/cron.daily

The mail command is usually provided by the mailx or nail package, just depends on what distribution your using.

And why would you want to have an email each and everytime logrotate runs? As far as I know and by default, it's not going to give you any output from it.

I don't need a notification of when the cron job is run, but I wanted to set it up so that the logs (ie. failed logins etc.. auth.log etc..) are emailed to me every night.

This seems to be a feature (-m --mail option) in the logrotate script.

"-m, --mail <command>
Tells logrotate which command to use when mailing logs. This command should accept two arguments: 1) the subject of the message, and 2) the recipient. The command must then read a message on standard input and mail it to the recipient. The default mail command is /bin/mail -s."

I am curious, how do folks usually email logs to themselves, if they need to monitor a specific log?

Thanks for your reply.