Logwatch is a tool that will monitor your server's logs and email the administrator a digest on a daily basis, and is primarily used on Linux-based distros.
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CentOS Cron running at wrong time, 5hrs late (Logwatch)
Server: CentOS 5.2 with Logwatch 7.3-8.el5
I have a cronjob setup to run logwatch at 10:45pm daily. The cron runs and I get the logwatch email, but it's running at 4:30am. My server's time is behind by 30mins but that doesn't explain the hours…
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Logwatch not showing FTP (Proftpd) success or failed logins, only shows uploades/downloads
Server: CentOS 5.2, Proftpd 1.3.3d, Logwatch 7.3-8.el5.noarch (updated with yum).
I've just setup Logwatch and got the email output, it does show some FTP info for example it shows uploaded and downloaded files. There are lots of failed FTP attempts…
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How to set up logwatch for OS X Server
Logwatch is easy enough to install via Macports, and it seems to work but the amount of output it gives leaves something to be desired. For example, this server is primarily a Samba file server, but logwatch prints out nothing concerning Samba. …
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Confused by email messages from cron and logwatch
Actually I found these reports in server's mail queue. It repeats everyday i find 3 mails...
2 from Cron Daemon
[cpbackup] Backups are not scheduled to run today (This can be adjusted in WHM => Backup => Configure Backup)
// i dunno why i see this…
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logwatch explanation
Could anyone please explain what the various parts of the following LogWatch mean:
--------------------- IMAP Begin ------------------------
[IMAPd] Logout stats:
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User | Logouts | Downloaded | Mbox Size
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get statistics about postfix
I have postfix on my server. and my server is sending about 5K emails daily i need to get some statistics about these emails in web interface (web tool) for example how many of them went to each domain (500 to @yahoo, 242 to @gmail and so on) and…
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What is /dev/md2?
Specifically, what might "A Fail event had been detected on md device /dev/md2." ramify?
(in an email from Plesk control panel's "Logwatch" BTW)
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Exim and Logwatch Missing Return-Path
I have been trying to troubleshoot a weird issue I am having with logwatch and exim. I have logwatch setup so send via another exim smarthost.
If I send a test message via GNU mail. It gets through fine.
If I sent a logwatch email, it fails. I…
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What are "unmatched entries" from rsnapshot in Logwatch?
I've just started using Logwatch and think it's brilliant. But every day I get the following errors from rsnapshot:
**Unmatched Entries**
~/bin/backupscript.sh: 24 Time(s)
cd /backups/: 24 Time(s)
cd /backups/tmp/: 24 Time(s)
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How to monitor specific NGINX error codes with Logwatch
I've just started implementing NGINX rate limiting, and need to monitor when rate limiting is actually happening on a server. I found out Logwatch will send daily logs by email which sounds perfect. What I would really like to do is just monitor…
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Change logwatch cron's hour
I installed Logwatch with this command: yum install logwatch
Always send me logs at 3:00 server hour (I not configured this hour), how can I change cron's hour?.
Because at this moment my server is doing backups and I want to get logs after…
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