logwatch: add page #1311
logwatch: add page #1311
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Logwatch is a useful command to summarize log files. It can be configured to use settings from it's config file and run by cron, but it can also be useful to run ad-hoc from the command line.
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| > Analyzes and summarizes system logs. | |||
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What does "system" mean here ? syslog ? Or any application log ? If its the latter, where is the location specified ?
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| - Analyze yesterday's logs in medium detail: | ||
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| `logwatch --range yesterday --detail med` |
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yesterday and med to be in tokens.
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| - Get the summarized login information for the last 3 weeks: | ||
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| `logwatch --range 'since 3 weeks ago' --detail low --service pam_unix ` |
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Please use tokens for the 3 options. And I think, instead of specifying med and low in separate examples, maybe you can mention 'in a given detail' in the description and write '--details {{low|medium|others}}' in the example. A shorter and concise way to express more.
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* rewrote tagline * used tokens in first example * reduced the number of examples
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@agnivade I addressed the issues you mentioned in the review; however, I'm not sure how to make the commit I just added to switch the issue status from "Changes requested" back to "Needing Review". |
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| - Get the summarized login information for the last 3 weeks: |
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I think the --service flag is a useful one. In case someone wants to get logs of a particular service. Let's keep that one.
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| > Analyzes and summarizes system logs. | |||
| > Summarizes many different logs for common services (e.g., apache, SSHD, etc.) in single report. | |||
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- in single report -> in a single report.
- SSHD -> sshd. (True that its an acronym, but just like tcp, I think its more familiar in its lowercase form)
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Ping @kalebo :) (let us know you feel we're being unreasonably picky, or have any other concerns -- we're still learning the kinks of properly maintaining such a highly collaborative project). |
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Thanks for the contribution! 🎉 |
Logwatch is a useful command to summarize log files. It can be configured to use settings from it's config file and run by cron, but it can also be useful to run ad-hoc from the command line.