Re: logwatch scripts for cfengine

[nathan r. hruby]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Tim Nelson wrote:

> On Mon, 2 May 2005, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
>
> > Dear Cfengineers,
> >
> > Did anyone create logwatch scripts for cfengine? I would bet they can be
> > useful - I'm using logwatch to keep an eye on a few hosts.
>
> 	What do you mean here?  Do you mean a logwatch module that interprets 
> messages that cfengine puts in syslog?
>
> 	I use Logwatch, but as soon as I have the resources, I'll get it 
> rewritten to deal with multiple hosts logging to a central server to cut down 
> on the number of e-mails we receive.  Kirk (Logwatch lead) has agreed to this 
> in principle, but this was a few years back.

You may want to peek at Epylog.  It's designed for central loghost
operation and a bit nicer (IMHO), internally, than logwatch (at least, the
last time I looked..)

HTH,

-n

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