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LOGWATCH(8)			 User Manuals			   LOGWATCH(8)

NAME
       logwatch - system log analyzer and reporter

SYNOPSIS
       logwatch	 [--detail level ] [--logfile log-file-group ] [--service ser‐
       vice-name ] [--print] [--mailto address ] [--archives] [--range range ]
       [--debug	 level ] [--save file-name ] [--logdir directory ] [--hostname
       hostname	 ]  [--splithosts]  [--multiemail]  [--output  output-type   ]
       [--numeric] [--no-oldfiles-log] [--version] [--help]

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, repectively.

       --logfile log-file-group
	      This will force Logwatch to process only	the  set  of  logfiles
	      defined  by  log-file-group (i.e. messages, xferlog, ...).  Log‐
	      watch will therefore process all services that  use  those  log‐
	      files.   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
	      therefore 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.

       --print
	      Print the results to stdout (i.e. the screen).

       --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 Yes‐
	      terday, 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.

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

       --logdir directory
	      Look  in	directory  for log files instead of the default direc‐
	      tory.

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

       --numeric
	      Inhibits additional name lookups, displaying IP addresses numer‐
	      ically.

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

       --help Displays usage information.

FILES
       /usr/share/logwatch/
	      This  directory contains all the perl executables and configura‐
	      tion 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 --print --ar‐
       chives
	      This  will  print	 out  all FTP transfers that are stored in all
	      current and archived xferlogs.
       logwatch --service pam_pwdb --range yesterday --detail high --print
	      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
	      overriding 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)
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