logwatch - Unix, Linux Command



NAME

logwatch: system log analyzer and reporter.

SYNOPSIS

  • logwatch [--detail level ]
  • logwatch[--logfile log-file-group ]
  • logwatch[--service service-name ]
  • logwatch[--print]
  • logwatch[--mailto address ]
  • logwatch[--archives]
  • logwatch[--range range ]
  • logwatch[--debug level ]
  • logwatch[--save file-name ]
  • logwatch[--logdir directory ]
  • logwatch[--hostname hostname ]
  • logwatch[--numeric]
  • logwatch[--help|--usage]
  • DESCRIPTION

    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. Easy to use - works right out of the package on almost all systems.

    Options

    Tag Description
    --detail level This is the detail level of the report. level can be a positive integer, or high, med, low, which correspond to the integers 10, 5, and 0, repectively..
    --logfile log-file-group This will force Logwatch to process only the set of logfiles defined by log-file-group (i.e. messages, xferlog, ...). Logwatch will therefore process all services that use those logfiles. This option can be specified more than once to specify multiple logfile-groups.
    --service service-name This will force Logwatch to process only the service specified in service-name (i.e. login, pam, identd, ...). Logwatch will therefore also process any log-file-groups necessary to process these services.
    --debug level Print the results to stdout (i.e. the screen)..
    --mailto address Mail the results to the email address or user specified in address. This option overrides the --print option.
    --range range You can specify a date-range to process. Common ranges are Yesterday, Today, All, and Help. Additional options are listed when invoked with the Help parameter.
    --archives Each log-file-group has basic logfiles (i.e. /var/log/messages) as well as archives (i.e. /var/log/messages.? or /var/log/messages.?.gz). When used with "--range all", this option will make Logwatch search through the archives in addition to the regular logfiles.
    --debug level For debugging purposes. level can range from 0 to 100. This will really clutter up your output. You probably don't want to use this.
    --save file-name Save the output to file-name instead of displaying or mailing it.
    --logdir directory Look in directory for log subdirectories or log files instead of the default directory.
    --hostname hostname Use hostname for the reports instead of this system's hostname. In addition, if HostLimit is set in the logwatch.conf configuration file.
    --numeric Inhibits additional name lookups, displaying IP addresses numerically.
    --no-oldfiles-log Suppress the logwatch log, which informs about the old files in logwatch tmpdir.
    --help Displays usage information.

    EXAMPLES

    Example-1:

    To create a few override files with custom settings. Create the following file :

    $ sudo vim /etc/logwatch/conf/services/zz-disk_space.conf

    Put in the following contents

    #New disk report options
    #Uncomment this to show the home directory sizes
    $show_home_dir_sizes = 1
    $home_dir = "/home"
    
    #Uncomment this to show the mail spool size
    $show_mail_dir_sizes = 1
    $mail_dir = "/var/spool/mail"
    
    #Uncomment this to show the system directory sizes /opt /usr/ /var/log
    $show_disk_usage = 1
    

    create the following file:

    $ sudo vim /etc/logwatch/conf/services/http.conf
    Put in these contents:
    
    # Set flag to 1 to enable ignore
    # or set to 0 to disable
    $HTTP_IGNORE_ERROR_HACKS = 1
    

    you may want to edit the email address that logwatch emails the report.:

     $ sudo vim /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
    Set MailTo = to an email address as desired:
    
    # Default person to mail reports to.  Can be a local account or a
    # complete email address.  Variable Print should be set to No to
    # enable mail feature.
    #MailTo = root
    MailTo = linuxadmins@mycompany.com

    To print all FTP transfers that are stored in all current and archived xferlogs.:

    $ logwatch --service ftpd-xferlog --range all --detail high --print --archives

    Example-2:

    To print out login information for the previous day.

    $ logwatch --service pam_pwdb --range yesterday --detail high --print
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