What is Logwatch?

Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system.  It will go

through your logs for a given period of time and make a report in the areas

that you wish with the detail that you wish.

Perl 5.8 or newer is recommended to run Logwatch. [But it will work with 5.6.1+]

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How do I install it?

An rpm file is available.  The following describes how to install if you

prefer to install from the source tar file:

The simplest setup is to follow the default configurations.

Simply make a directory (/usr/share/logwatch) and copy the

scripts, conf, and lib directories into that directory.

You will also need to make the /etc/logwatch dir if you want to make

configuration changes without having to modify the default config files.

The steps to follow to get the default setup going are something like this.

[However we recommend using the install_logwatch.sh script when possible.]

Untar logwatch.

cd logwatch-x.x

mkdir /etc/logwatch

mkdir /etc/logwatch/scripts

mkdir /etc/logwatch/conf

mkdir /etc/logwatch/conf/logfiles

mkdir /etc/logwatch/conf/services

touch /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf

touch /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf

touch /etc/logwatch/conf/override.conf

mkdir /usr/share/logwatch

mkdir /usr/share/logwatch/dist.conf

mkdir /usr/share/logwatch/dist.conf/logfiles

mkdir /usr/share/logwatch/dist.conf/services

mv conf/ /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf

mv scripts/ /usr/share/logwatch/scripts

mv lib /usr/share/logwatch/lib

mkdir /var/cache/logwatch

ln -s /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl /etc/cron.daily/0logwatch

ln -s /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/logwatch.pl /usr/sbin/logwatch

This is only a suggestion and if you look at the logwatch.pl script and the

logwatch.conf file you will see that you can configure the system layout in many

different ways.

See also the file HOWTO-Customize-LogWatch for more information.

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How do I use it?

Well, it should pretty much work on its own, sending you an

email every night.  For more configuration options, run

'logwatch --help' or edit  /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf 

or /etc/logwatch/logwatch.conf.

See the file HOWTO-Customize-LogWatch for more information.

You can also use it from the command line (as documented in the

man page).

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If you want me to add support for a new set of log entries, please

email me all the log entries you can from that service from as many

machines as possible!  Or, better yet, read the HOWTO-Customize-LogWatch

and write your own!

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Please send suggestions, bug reports, and patches to:

logwatch-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Please ask questions at:

logwatch@kaybee.org

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AUTHOR CONTACT INFORMATION:

   Kirk Bauer <kirk@kaybee.org>

   http://www.kaybee.org/kirk/

Newest releases can be found at:

   https://sourceforge.net/projects/logwatch/files/