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█▌ - LOGWATCH - █▌
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█ Logwatch is a "system log analyzer and reporter". Project page is HERE, ▐▌
█ man page is HERE. It is a very easy program to use. I have mine set up to ▐▌
█ e-mail daily a summary of the logs in an easy to read format. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ PREREQUISITES: ▐▌
█ `````````````` ▐▌
█ A mailer program to send out-going mail if you want the reports e-mailed. ▐▌
█ I'm using exim, view my tutorial for it if you need to set up out-going ▐▌
█ mail HERE. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ INSTALL LOGWATCH: ▐▌
█ ````````````````` ▐▌
█ su ▐▌
█ View if you have the packages logwatch needs/recommends: ▐▌
█ dpkg -l | grep -E 'perl|post|libdate|fortune' ▐▌
█ apt-get update ▐▌
█ Install logwatch including the packages that you don't have, for myself it ▐▌
█ is: ▐▌
█ apt-get install logwatch libdate-manip-perl ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ DOCS: ▐▌
█ ````` ▐▌
█ logwatch --help ▐▌
█ man logwatch ▐▌
█ And the best one to read to get set up: ▐▌
█ gzip -d /usr/share/doc/logwatch/HOWTO-Customize-LogWatch.gz ▐▌
█ cat /usr/share/doc/logwatch/HOWTO-Customize-LogWatch ▐▌
█ Since I do all this from Windows and there is much to read, I download the ▐▌
█ package from HERE to get that file, or I've mirroed it HERE. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ DEBIAN INSTALL NOTE: ▐▌
█ ```````````````````` ▐▌
█ man page, logwatch docs, etc state that logwatch files are here: ▐▌
█ /etc/log.d/ & - For my Debian install I do not have log.d directory, and ▐▌
█ /etc/logwatch/ - this only contains empty subdirectories. This is fine, it ▐▌
█ will still work without a problem. Read HERE for more input about this. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ BASIC CONFIGURATIONS FOR LOGWATCH: ▐▌
█ `````````````````````````````````` ▐▌
█ Set to whom the report should be sent to and few other items: ▐▌
█ pico /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf ▐▌
█ Or your install it might be here: ▐▌
█ pico /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf ▐▌
█ Read through it to set the basics, for example these are my changes: ▐▌
█ Output = stdout ▐▌
█ Changed to: ▐▌
█ Output = mail ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Format = text ▐▌
█ Changed to: ▐▌
█ Format = html ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ #MailTo = root ▐▌
█ Changed to: ▐▌
█ MailTo = mewbies ▐▌
█ Or you could input e-mail addresses separated by a space, for example: ▐▌
█ MailTo = mewbies@mewb1.com mewbies@mewb2.com ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Detail = Low ▐▌
█ Changed to: ▐▌
█ Detail = Med ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Save changes then to run it: ▐▌
█ logwatch ▐▌
█ If you want to watch the output instead of having it e-mailed to you then ▐▌
█ set 'Output = mail' line back to its default: ▐▌
█ Output = stdout ▐▌
█ Leaving 'Output = stdout' will still have the daily reports e-mailed out ▐▌
█ tho. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ If you don't receive mail as expected, trouble shoot in your config and ▐▌
█ here: ▐▌
█ tail /var/log/mail.log ▐▌
█ tail /var/log/mail.info ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ Done, it's that easy, you'll now receive daily reports. ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ HAVE ROOT'S E-MAIL SENT TO ANOTHER ACCOUNT: ▐▌
█ ``````````````````````````````````````````` ▐▌
█ 'MailTo = mewbies' setting above will actually e-mail to an account that I ▐▌
█ have specified for root by doing this: ▐▌
█ pico /etc/aliases ▐▌
█ The last line where it has: ▐▌
█ root: admnin1 ▐▌
█ Change to your user name, for example: ▐▌
█ root: mewbies ▐▌
█ Or you could assign an e-mail: ▐▌
█ root: youremail@whatever.com ▐▌
█ Or both: ▐▌
█ root: mewbies, youremail@whatever.com ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ PER PROGRAM CONFIGURATIONS: ▐▌
█ ``````````````````````````` ▐▌
█ Applications conf files are here: ▐▌
█ ls -al /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logfiles/ ▐▌
█ and ▐▌
█ ls -al /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/ ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ If you want to change any of their settings, for example exim, take a look ▐▌
█ at their conf files: ▐▌
█ pico /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logfiles/exim.conf ▐▌
█ pico /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/exim.conf ▐▌
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█ //---------------------------------------------------------------------- ▐▌
█ ▐▌
█ If you find mistakes, have suggestions, and or questions please post at ▐▌
█ mewbies forum HERE - thank you. ▐▌
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█ Last update on 13 Jul '10 ▐▌
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█▌ - mewbies.com - █▌
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