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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
event, which I want to know about via console messages during weekdays, but
which I’ll need email messages to know about during the weekend.
The syntax of the
when= option is when=range_of_days:range_of_hours. Thus, in
Example 12-30, we see that any time the message “file system full” is logged, Swatch
will echo the log entry to the console in red ink. It will also send email, but only if it’s
Saturday (
7) or Sunday (1).
Running Swatch
Swatch expects .swatchrc to live in the home directory of the user who invokes
swatch. Swatch also keeps its temporary files there by default. (Each time it’s
invoked, it creates and runs a script called a watcher process, whose name ends with
a dot followed by the PID of the swatch process that created it).
The
-c path/to/configfile and --script-dir=/path/to/scripts flags let you specify
alternate locations for Swatch’s configuration and script files, respectively. Never
keep either in a world-writable directory, however. In fact, only these files’ owners
should be able to read them.
For example, to invoke Swatch so that it reads my custom configuration file in /var/
log and also uses that directory for its watcher-process script, I’d use the command
listed in Example 12-30.
I also need to tell Swatch
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