[CentOS] logwatch customization question
Robert Moskowitz
rgm at htt-consult.com
Sun Apr 9 14:07:28 UTC 2017
On 04/09/2017 09:42 AM, Richard wrote:
>> Date: Sunday, April 09, 2017 08:36:17 -0400
>> From: Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>
>>
>> Logwatch is installed, and I am assuming by how empty /etc/logwatch
>> is that it is running from defaults, which I find in
>> /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services
>>
>> I want to customize ONE service. dovecot.
>>
>> Do I copy /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/dovecot.conf
>>
>> to
>>
>> /etc/logwatch/conf/services
>>
>> and edit it there,
>>
>> or do I have to copy ALL default.conf/services/* there and modify
>> /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf to look there?
>>
>> The README is rather not helpful on this.
>>
>> How do I modify ONE service (and not just make the changes in
>> default.conf that I have seen in a couple howtos.
>>
> I think that the HOWTO, referenced in the logwatch man page, has a
> fairly complete explanation of approaches to customization.
>
>
> centos-6/logwatch-7.3.6
>
> MORE INFORMATION
> The directory /usr/share/doc/logwatch-* contains several
> files with additional documentation:
> HOWTO-Customize-LogWatch
> Documents the directory structure of Logwatch
> configuration and executable files, and describes how
> to customize Logwatch by overriding these default files.
thanks. I think I got it from the sendmail example.
" For example, if file /etc/logwatch/conf/services/sendmail.conf has the
single entry:
$sendmail_unknownusersthreshold = 5
then the threshold for unknown users is set to five instead of the
default of one. All other parameters are not modified. "
thus:
cat > /etc/logwatch/conf/services/dovecot.conf
# Override the default Detail level. This will only affect dovecot's report.
$dovecot_detail = 10
I will see how it goes after tonight!
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