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LOGWATCH(8) User Manuals LOGWATCH(8) NAME logwatch - system log analyzer and reporter SYNOPSIS logwatch [--detail level ] [--logfile log-file-group ] [--service ser- vice-name ] [--mailto address ] [--archives] [--range range ] [--debug level ] [--filename file-name ] [--logdir directory ] [--hostlimit hosts ] [--hostname hostname ] [--html_wrap number of characters ] [--hostformat host based options ] [--output output-type ] [--format report format ] [--subject email subject ] [--encode encoding to use ] [--numeric] [--version] [--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. Logwatch is be- ing used for Linux and many types of UNIX. OPTIONS --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, respectively. --logfile log-file-group This will force Logwatch to process only the set of logfiles de- fined 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. This option can be specified more than once to specify multiple services to process. A useful service-name is All which will process all services (and logfile-groups) for which you have filters installed. --mailto address Mail the results to the email address or user specified in ad- dress. --range range You can specify a date-range to process. Common ranges are Yes- terday, 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/mes- sages.?.gz). When used with "--range all", this option will make Logwatch search through the archives in addition to the regular logfiles. For other values of --range, Logwatch will search the appropriate archived logs. --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. --filename 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 first be- fore looking in the default directories. --hostlimit host1,host2 Limit report to hostname - host1, host2. --hostname hostname Use hostname for the reports instead of this system's hostname. In addition, if HostLimit is set in the logwatch.conf configura- tion file (see MORE INFORMATION, below), then only logs from this hostname will be processed (where appropriate). --html_wrap num-characters Number of characters that html output should be wrapped to. De- fault is 80. --hostformat split Use split approach when formatting report for multiple hosts - none [default], split, splitmail. --output output-type Report using output-type - stdout [default], mail, file. --format format Format report using format - text [default], html. --subject email-subject Customize the email subject sent by Logwatch. Option --output must be set to mail. --encode encoding Encode report using encoding - none [default], base64, 7bit, 8bit [same as 'none']. --numeric Inhibits additional name lookups, displaying IP addresses numer- ically. --usage Displays usage information --help same as --usage. FILES /usr/share/logwatch/ This directory contains all the perl executables and configura- tion files shipped with the logwatch distribution. /etc/logwatch This directory contains local configuration files that override the default configuration. See MORE INFORMATION below for more information. EXAMPLES logwatch --service ftpd-xferlog --range all --detail high --archives This will print out all FTP transfers that are stored in all current and archived xferlogs. logwatch --service pam_pwdb --range yesterday --detail high This will print out login information for the previous day... MORE INFORMATION The directory /usr/share/doc/logwatch-* contains several files with ad- ditional documentation: HOWTO-Customize-LogWatch Documents the directory structure of Logwatch configuration and executable files, and describes how to customize Logwatch by overriding these default files. LICENSE Describes the License under which Logwatch is distributed. Ad- ditional clauses may be specified in individual files. README Describes how to install, where to find it, mailing lists, and other useful information. AUTHOR Kirk Bauer <kirk@kaybee.org> http://sourceforge.net/projects/logwatch Linux May 2012 LOGWATCH(8)
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