Can logwatch be configured to display the system uptime as part of the reporting prologue? If not then what would be the recommended way of including this information in a daily logwatch report?
4 thoughts on - Logwatch And System Uptime
Enable it in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/zz-runtime.conf
Pete
Thanks a lot! Helps you to be aware that you definitely missed something important if you haven’t the box rebooted during more than 45-60 days…
Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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It is also pretty easy to add a new item to the logwatch report. I created my own uptime module which is really nothing more than the piped output of
/usr/bin/uptime.
The uptime section of the logwatch report looks like this:
——————— Uptime report Begin ———————-
More sustainable, I think, would be to copy zz-runtime.conf to
/etc/logwatch/conf/services and then enable it.
Changes in /usr/share/logwatch/* will be overwritten during a package update, while customizations in /etc/logwatch will remain unchanged.
4 thoughts on - Logwatch And System Uptime
Enable it in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/services/zz-runtime.conf
Pete
Thanks a lot! Helps you to be aware that you definitely missed something important if you haven’t the box rebooted during more than 45-60 days…
Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
It is also pretty easy to add a new item to the logwatch report. I created my own uptime module which is really nothing more than the piped output of
/usr/bin/uptime.
The uptime section of the logwatch report looks like this:
——————— Uptime report Begin ———————-
More sustainable, I think, would be to copy zz-runtime.conf to
/etc/logwatch/conf/services and then enable it.
Changes in /usr/share/logwatch/* will be overwritten during a package update, while customizations in /etc/logwatch will remain unchanged.