The SISO router uses remote syslog to archive messages from its tasks. This section describes how to generate reports for key services.
The vanilla syslogd appends messages from the
different syslog clients to the file
/var/log/messages. The sytem log analyzer
and reporter (logwatch) can generate reports based
on this raw data. To use logwatch with SISO:
Only report on one host
add HostLimit = Yes to
/etc/log.d/logwatch.conf
Generate the reports once a day.
add the following crontab entry
0 1 * * * /usr/sbin/logwatch --archives --range yesterday --hostname siso.vonk --mailto root
The logwatch distributed with Fedora Core 3, needs a patch: [38]
Install the example logwatch configuration files and scripts on the syslog server: