Bill Campbell 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...
>
> We use swatch to monitor various things, mainly security related.
>
Did you have to do something to it to make it work with centos? I have
one running on a machine that collects a lot of router syslogs and it
has the annoying habit of resending a bunch of old notifications
whenever a new one is noticed.
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Les Mikesell
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