am I hacked?
peter kostov
fedora at light-bg.com
Wed Apr 25 10:58:44 UTC 2007
Chris Tyler wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 01:50:48 +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner wrote:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Martin Marques spake thusly:
>>
>>> peter kostov escribi:
>>>
>>>> I have logwatch installed, but I didn't know about it. Thanks for
>>>> pointing it out!
>>>>
>>> Configure it and make it run. It helps alot!
>>>
>> AFAIK the default Fedora setup is to install and run logwatch using
>> cron, every day at 4:02am.
>>
>> There should be a file:
>>
>> /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch
>>
>> If it's there, and crontab contains an entry for cron.daily, then that
>> should be all the configuring it needs.
>>
>
> ...Except that the reports are sent to root, and root's mail often goes
> unread.
>
> Peter, check root's mail -- if the logwatch reports are there, you can
> edit /etc/aliases, find the line that says who should get root's mail
> (the last line in the file), uncomment it, and change it to your user
> ID:
>
> # Person who should get root's mail
> root: put-your-user-ID-here
>
> Then run newaliases and you should start getting logwatch reports.
>
> --
> Chris Tyler
> Fedora Daily Package - http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/
>
>
Thanks all for replying!
Peter
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