[CentOS] Re: Log Monitoring Recomendation

Tue Jan 8 18:18:44 UTC 2008
Ugo Bellavance <ugob at lubik.ca>

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.