Get daily emails of system activity with Logwatch
Bug #413488 reported by
Adam Sweet
This bug affects 1 person
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu Server Tips |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Have your systems update you daily with what's going on by installing logwatch. It will probably pull in an SMTP daemon, but will parse your log files and mail you daily with anything you should know.
If you want a more timely email, logcheck will mail you as things happen.
To make sure these emails get to you, edit /etc/aliases (it might be different for some mail servers) and add or edit the line:
root: <email address hidden>
and run:
sudo newaliases
to update the email aliases database. You should now receive emails from logcheck or logwatch.
Changed in ubuntu-server-tips: | |
status: | Confirmed → Incomplete |
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Hi Adam,
Great tip and thanks for submitting it. The current focus is to try and keep tips short, so i'll commit a a brief version and link to a relevant wiki page.
Thanks again.