Logwatch - Keep an eye on your system activity

This article shortly explain how to install and configure logwatch on your Centos/RHEL/Fedora server in order to keep an eye on it Requirements working MTA (mail transport agent) like postfix, exim, sendmail, etc. root access (or sudo privileges) on the server Installation Install the logwatch package as usual # yum install logwatch -y Copy the default configuration file # cp -v /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf Then modify with your preferred editor as your need (see the example below)...

October 29, 2013 · 2 min · Davide