Re: logwatch scripts for cfengine

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

>       What do you mean here?  Do you mean a logwatch module that 
> interprets messages that cfengine puts in syslog?
yeap - messages like
May  3 00:18:39 ravana cfenvd[16647]:  Couldn't stat
/var/lib/cfengine2/state/cf_incoming.netbiosns, which needed editing!

btw - what does this message really mean? ;-)

>       I use Logwatch, but as soon as I have the resources, I'll get it 
> rewritten to deal with multiple hosts logging to a central server to cut 
> down on the number of e-mails we receive.  Kirk (Logwatch lead) has agreed 
> to this in principle, but this was a few years back.
that would be great! Logwatch is a nice tool and it saved me already a
lot of time. i've found its design too inflexible but the set of scripts
provided with it is very tasty ;-) 

Centralization would be of great benefit for it

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