Logwatch verbosity problem

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 19 February 2006 17:44, David Cary Hart wrote:
> 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.

I haven't changed that.

> 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
>
Fine.  I wasn't sure whether I needed to be controlling it through logwatch or 
samba.  Thanks for the pointer.

Anne
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