Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing

[Troy Curtis Jr]

Logwatch is really designed to be run as a cronjob which sends you an
email after it has parsed through your logs.  The configuration for
logwatch is located in the /etc/log.d/ directory.  In that directory
you will find many scripts and configuration options for a wide range
of different log files.  You will want to start with
/etc/log.d/conf/logwatch.conf. By default it send the email message
with the log analysis to root (you can set it to whatever you like if
you have your mailer configured correctly).

You should probably get a meaningful analysis with all the defaults,
just check your root accounts mail.

I have been using logwatch for many months now and have been very
happy with it.  Hope this helps point you in the right direction.
(Also check /etc/cron.daily/logwatch for the default cronjob).

Troy

BTW the obfuscated perl email address that gentux uses has to be the
coolest sig ever!


On 8/22/06, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a practical way to review all the various logs on
> > > the system each day?  Does it just come down to a brisk scroll through
> > > the previous day's rotated logs?
> > >
> >
> > Isn't that why logwatch was created?
>
> I emerged logwatch, but even though the man pages reference the
> command 'logwatch' it is a 'command not found'.  I ran 'logwatch.pl'
> which I spotted from the emerge's output, but there was no ouput from
> that script at all.
>
> - Grant
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>
>


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