what is logwatch doing?
Bill Tangren
bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Mon Jan 23 19:46:24 UTC 2006
Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:12:44AM -0500, Andrew Bacchi wrote:
>
>>The job originates in /etc/cron.daily/00-logwatch. You can disable it by
>>removing it from /etc/cron.daily. But I don't know why you would want
>>to, it provides me valuable information every day.
>
>
> A *much* better alternative to logwatch is logcheck. It emails you on
> log file exceptions instead of emailing you everyday with stuff you
> don't care about. I run logcheck hourly on all my servers and with
> properly tuned ignore files, it's quiet unless there's something that I
> need to know about.
>
> .../Ed
Ed,
Do you have a URL for downloading logcheck? I can't find it on the RH site, and
the only other location I can find it
http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/logcheck.html
seems to have products geared primarily for Debian and FreeBSD.
Bill
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