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NAME

       logwatch - system log analyzer and reporter

SYNOPSIS

       logwatch [--detail level ] [--logfile log-file-group ] [--service service-name ] [--mailto address ] [--archives] [--range range ] [--debug
       level ] [--filename file-name ] [--logdir directory ] [--hostlimit hosts ] [--hostname hostname	]  [--html_wrap  number  of  characters  ]
       [--hostformat  host  based  options  ] [--output output-type ] [--format report format ] [--encode encoding to use ] [--numeric] [--no-old-
       files-log] [--version] [--help|--usage]

DESCRIPTION

       Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system.  It will go through your logs for a given period of time and make a report	in
       the areas that you wish with the detail that you wish.  Logwatch is being used for Linux and many types of UNIX.

OPTIONS

       --detail level
	      This is the detail level of the report.  level can be a positive integer, or high, med, low, which correspond to the integers 10, 5,
	      and 0, respectively.

       --logfile log-file-group
	      This will force Logwatch to process only the set of logfiles defined by log-file-group (i.e. messages, xferlog, ...).  Logwatch will
	      therefore  process  all  services that use those logfiles.  This option can be specified more than once to specify multiple logfile-
	      groups.

       --service service-name
	      This will force Logwatch to process only the service specified in service-name (i.e. login, pam, identd, ...).  Logwatch will there-
	      fore  also  process any log-file-groups necessary to process these services.  This option can be specified more than once to specify
	      multiple services to process.  A useful service-name is All which will process all services (and logfile-groups) for which you  have
	      filters installed.

       --mailto address
	      Mail the results to the email address or user specified in address.

       --range range
	      You  can	specify  a  date-range	to process. Common ranges are Yesterday, Today, All, and Help.	Additional options are listed when
	      invoked with the Help parameter.

       --archives
	      Each log-file-group has basic logfiles (i.e. /var/log/messages) as well  as  archives  (i.e.  /var/log/messages.?  or  /var/log/mes-
	      sages.?.gz).   When  used  with "--range all", this option will make Logwatch search through the archives in addition to the regular
	      logfiles.  For other values of --range, Logwatch will search the appropriate archived logs.

       --debug level
	      For debugging purposes.  level can range from 0 to 100.  This will really clutter up your output.  You probably don't  want  to  use
	      this.

       --filename file-name
	      Save the output to file-name instead of displaying or mailing it.

       --logdir directory
	      Look in directory for log subdirectories or log files instead of the default directory.

       --hostlimit host1,host2
	      Limit report to hostname - host1, host2.

       --hostname hostname
	      Use hostname for the reports instead of this system's hostname.  In addition, if HostLimit is set in the logwatch.conf configuration
	      file (see MORE INFORMATION, below), then only logs from this hostname will be processed (where appropriate).

       --html_wrap num-characters
	      Number of characters that html output should be wrapped to. Default is 80.

       --numeric
	      Inhibits additional name lookups, displaying IP addresses numerically.

       --no-oldfiles-log
	      Suppress the logwatch log, which informs about the old files in logwatch tmpdir.

       --usage
	      Displays usage information

       --help same as --usage.

FILES

       /usr/share/logwatch/
	      This directory contains all the perl executables and configuration files shipped with the logwatch distribution.

       /etc/logwatch
	      This directory contains local configuration files that override the default configuration.  See  MORE  INFORMATION  below  for  more
	      information.

EXAMPLES

       logwatch --service ftpd-xferlog --range all --detail high --archives
	      This will print out all FTP transfers that are stored in all current and archived xferlogs.
       logwatch --service pam_pwdb --range yesterday --detail high
	      This will print out login information for the previous day...

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 over-
	      riding these default files.
       LICENSE
	      Describes the License under which Logwatch is distributed.  Additional clauses may be specified in individual files.
       README
	      Describes how to install, where to find it, mailing lists, and other useful information.

AUTHOR

       Kirk Bauer <kirk@kaybee.org>
       http://www.kaybee.org/~kirk
       ftp://ftp.kaybee.org/pub/redhat/RPMS

Linux								   October 2005 						       LOGWATCH(8)