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… > Depends on if you're monitoring just one server or a bunch. I'd google for these things: LogWatch epylog big syster oak Then there's various things that read syslog and can read reports for you. Google around for things like syslog-ng, nagios, zenoss, whatnot, if you're looking at larger scope. Jed