From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GFiAU-0004TF-2u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:08:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k7N26ROY026652; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:06:27 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7N24EUd020907 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:04:15 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so2835608pyd for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:04:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FKzuQg8TF7MFwa+QAMN2NhGJ5At+JcmhHK0m2Ar/gHeXS7YynZffs6h1kyJrA9x/qn2tMoI1EgLtA97WSCx3jMTIspS+/TlNTFeyRmLpHlXGRYyKOQ6STbvTOAk7/OvM765UqR7Vzdax7P/jP/cj8ZsuwY2zp/bMZS1Silb1FEU= Received: by 10.35.51.13 with SMTP id d13mr16785467pyk; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.94.14 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:04:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4148457f0608221904r696c33a8r9780987210f99a29@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:04:14 -0500 From: "Troy Curtis Jr" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Practical log reviewing In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10608220816q5d6ca1atdd8966a262b050de@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <49bf44f10608212018s696cca9do2ecab8a74e85fd46@mail.gmail.com> <49bf44f10608220816q5d6ca1atdd8966a262b050de@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b38d7775-aa03-4867-8588-f5030454432b X-Archives-Hash: f219215ce19ae4291d16799e4327179c 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 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 > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- "Beware of spyware. If you can, use the Firefox browser." - USA Today Download now at http://getfirefox.com Registered Linux User #354814 ( http://counter.li.org/) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list