Logwatch replacement..

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Sat Jan 8 15:14:01 UTC 2005


David Cary Hart <Fedora at TQMcube.com> writes:

> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 14:33 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Anyone here that can recommend a replacement for Logwatch that allows
>> more fine grained user control over what gets reported?
>
> The simplest solution MIGHT be to cron egrep <whatever you want> logfile
> |mail <to you>
>

Well no that isn't really a simple solution at all unless one is only
wanting to see one or two things recorded.  What I want is an
application that does all the sorting rejecting accepting etc with a
more fine grained config.

> might also want to take a look at swatch which is on sourceforge.

This looks good .... thanks.




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