Logwatch error help

illNino · 03-17-2009, 02:54 AM

Hello, I keep getting this logwatch error sent to my e-mail daily (along with the logwatch):

"Can't exec "sendmail": No such file or directory at /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl line 1010, <TESTFILE> line 2.
Can't execute sendmail -t: No such file or directory"

When I run logwatch manually I don't get this error, so I'm assuming it has something to do with cron. This is my cron entry:
MAILTO="logs@blah.com"
@daily /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl

Thanks in advance.

chrism01 · 03-17-2009, 03:43 AM

The cron env by default has next to no $PATH set, so its advisable to use full pathnames to all programs called from a cronjob (and the data files), or use the PATH in eg /etc/crontab

illNino · 03-17-2009, 04:12 AM

Where would I add the full path?

ArfaSmif · 03-17-2009, 07:00 PM

The problem is in the logwatch.pl script - it doesn't have the correct PATH for the sendmail program.

Edit this file and put full path names in front of all executables. In your case "sendmail".

Do a "which sendmail" (no quotes) from the command line. My result is :-

# which sendmail
/usr/sbin/sendmail

Edit your logwatch.pl script and wherever it has sendmail replace it with /usr/sbin/sendmail

You will probably find more ocurrences of this for other files in the script as well.