Logwatch verbosity problem

[David Cary Hart]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:14:25 +0000
Anne Wilson <cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk> opined:
> This morning I got the first logwatch from the new server, and it printed out 
> at a massive 17 pages.  I will find it hard to sort the wheat from the chaff 
> on a report like that.  Every Samba request from every box on the LAN is 
> being reported in great detail.
> 
> There must be some way of cutting the Samba reports down, but I don't know 
> which file controls this report.  Help, please?
> 
> Anne

By default, detail is set to "0" (low) in /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch.
If that is the case, have you changed "log level" in smb.conf higher
than 1? You can also change debug = no. Samba has a plethora of log
options.

http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/samba/chapter/book/ch04_08.html

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