[PLUG] Daily System Log Reporting

Joe Pruett joey at clean.q7.com
Tue Mar 17 00:23:32 UTC 2009


>   Way back when I was running Red Hat-4.1 I installed
> /etc/cron.daily/dailyscript. It seems to have worn out and no longer runs.
> Part of that is due to my losing /etc/dailyscript.conf during my upgrade
> mess a couple of months ago. Anyway, after a dozen years it's time for
> something more modern.
>
>   Dailyscript was written to send an e-mail (to root or a user) summarizing
> who logged in, and activities in syslog, named, identd, pam, ftpd, sshd,
> kernel, talkd, telnetd, and PAM_pwdb -- if there was any activity to report
> in the logs. It also checked /var/log/messages for anything important.
>
>   What are you SysAdmins using nowadays? I'd prefer takeout rather than
> trying to write my own.

logwatch is the standard for rh distros nowadays.



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