Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Given my experience in Linux is limited currently, what do you guys use to monitor logs such as ‘messages’ on your centos servers? I had a hardware failure that happened in between me manually looking (of course…). I would hope it might have a some features to email critical issues etc…
logwatch is a good start.
Get the latest version from www.logwatch.org. Runs automatically daily and sends output to root.