what is logwatch doing?

[Bill Tangren]

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