[20030618] Bob Proulx (bob@proulx.com) wrote: > Whither logwatch? > > In the past on RH systems I have used logwatch to summarize > interesting logfile events and mail them to the admin. Recently I > have not used anything. Just yesterday a friend, that I have > convinced to try Debian, asked about logwatch. I would like to give > him a good answer. > > Of course I 'apt-cache search'ed for logwatch and logfile and found > several other examples of packages which do logfile analysis. But I > was surprised that logwatch itself was not among the list. Does > anyone have a .deb of it? > > Since it is obviously not favored among Debian users or it would be > more readily available it leads me to ask what are the favored log > watch utilities? I can certainly walk through the list of available > ones. But here I would like to learn from your experiences and hear > your recommendations. Try metalog or syslog-ng instead of syslogd/klogd. Both have that feature you want integrated (among other nice stuff of course). I personally prefer metalog since it has great performance & is easier to configure. -- Manolis Tzanidakis (mtzanidakis-at-freemail-dot-gr) Jabber: mtzanidakis@jabber.org ICQ: 102798230 GnuPG Key Fingerprint: 5CA5 41D6 09F1 C4B9 C331 65EF 4B3F 6979 EB8C 88F3 Get my public key at: pgp.mit.edu
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