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Linux Server Security, Second Edition
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Linux Server Security, Second Edition

by Michael D. Bauer
January 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
544 pages
23h 44m
English
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Chapter 12: System Log Management and Monitoring
Example 12-24, presented in the form of an actual script, generates messages for all
facilities at each priority level.
Logger works with both syslog and Syslog-ng.
Managing System Logles with logrotate
Configuring and fine-tuning your system-logging facilities is extremely important for
system security and general diagnostics. But if your logs grow too large and fill up
their filesystem, all that work will be counterproductive.
As with syslog itself, most Linux distributions come with a preconfigured log-rota-
tion scheme; on most of these distributions, this scheme is built on the utility
logrotate. As with syslog, while this default scheme tends to work adequately for
many users, it’s too important a mechanism to take for granted. It behooves you to
understand, periodically evaluate, and if necessary, customize your log-management
setup.
Example 12-24. Generating even more test messages with a bash script
#!/bin/bash
for i in {auth,auth-priv,cron,daemon,kern,lpr,mail,mark,news,syslog,user,uucp,local0,
local1,local2,local3,local4,local5,local6,local7} # (this is all one line!)
do
for k in {debug,info,notice,warning,err,crit,alert,emerg}
do
logger -p $i.$k "Test daemon message, facility $i priority $k"
done
done
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