Have a watch on your logs
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Want to know what happened on your server ? Logwatch is for you.It sums up and aggregates some information from your log files and you can have it sent by email to you.Context and installation
The server I'm running is a Debian Wheezy.apt-get install logwatchI wanted it to send an email to a specific local user and I wanted the email to contains as much detail as possible. I wrote to
etc/logwatch/conf/override.conf# cat >/etc/logwatch/conf/override.conf <<EOF
logwatch: MailTo = myuser@lebegue.org
logwatch: Output = mail
logwatch: Detail = high
EOF
The result is an email sent myuser@lebegue.org with every important details.