The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
Logwatch is a monitoring system that you can configure to report
on areas of interest in the system logs. After you install the
logwatch package, the
/etc/cron.daily/0logwatch script runs every
night and sends an email report to root. You
can set local configuration options in
/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf that
override the main configuration file
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf,
including:
Log files to monitor, including log files that are stored for other hosts.
Names of services to monitor, or to be excluded from monitoring.
Level of detail to report.
User to be sent an emailed report.
You can also run logwatch directly from the command line.
For more information, see the logwatch(8)
manual page.