what is logwatch doing?

Bill Tangren bjt at aa.usno.navy.mil
Mon Jan 23 19:51:45 UTC 2006


Bill Tangren wrote:
> 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
> 

um ... nevermind. I found it by googling on LogSentry. Thanks anyway.

Bill




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