Helloooo again Sinistral!! OMG I finally got it to work!!! When I ran logwatch it gave me this error saying something like "logfile not defined" because as you can see I hadn't define a log file to call YET into the script (that's why the script was hanging!) Not very bright u see!! Soooo, anyways what I did was to go to my /etc/logwatch/conf/logfiles directory and added a wtmp.conf file and added this line into it: 

my-mnag0:/etc/logwatch/conf/logfiles # ls -lrt
total 4
-rwxrwxr-x 1 root sysadm 61 Dec  1 15:11 wtmp.conf
my-mnag0:/etc/logwatch/conf/logfiles # more wtmp.conf
#Define log file group for wtmp log

Logfile = /var/log/wtmp

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so then i rerun logwatch again and lo and behold!!! out came the wtmp logs!!!! 

 Wed Nov 30 14:57:35 2011 Normal   my9849       pts/0 191.255         
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 Wed Nov 30 14:58:11 2011 Normal   root         pts/1 191.255.        
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 Wed Nov 30 15:04:17 2011 Term                  pts/0                 
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 Wed Nov 30 15:04:25 2011 Normal   my9849       pts/0 191.255.        
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 Wed Nov 30 15:22:33 2011 Term                  pts/0                 
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 Wed Nov 30 15:23:51 2011 Term                  pts/1                 
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 Thu Dec  1 06:09:22 2011 Normal   my9849       pts/0 191.255.        
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 ---------------------- WTMP logs End -------------------------

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OMG Im soo happy!!! This thing has been going on for 2 weeks and I was about to give up until you came along n responded to my distress call!! Thank you soo very much!!! *big hug and kissess

In reply to Re^4: adding wtmp script into logwatch by hedkandi
in thread adding wtmp script into logwatch by hedkandi

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