what is logwatch doing?
Ed Wilts
ewilts at ewilts.org
Tue Jan 3 16:46:00 UTC 2006
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
> mcclnx mcc wrote:
>
> >We have Redhat AS 3.0 on DELL server. Everyday on
> >4:02 A.M. there has E-MAIl to "root" sat "logwatch".
> > I check ed "root" cron job and can not find anything
> >relate to it.
> >
> >Does anyone know:
> >
> >1. which daemon cause it?
> >
> >2. Can I disable it?
> >
> >Thanks.
> >
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