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Re: logwatch and logrotate might create a blind spot in reporting

from [The Tibetan Traveller] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: logwatch and logrotate might create a blind spot in reporting
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 02:42:04 +0000 (UTC) 
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Sami Pitko wrote:


There are some ways to make logwatch reports more reliable:

  * set "Archives = yes" in logwatch.conf. You might also want to tune
    archive settings in /etc/log.d/conf/logfiles/ to prevent unnecessary
    processing of really old archives. To cover the blind spot with range
    'yesterday' and weekly rotation, it is usually enough to specify for
    example "Archive = secure.1" in secure.conf

  * move logwatch and logrotate to happen at midnight

  * change date matching logic in /etc/log.d/scripts to match for example
    previous 24 hours


or add the following to the logrotate configuration file:

prerotate
  /full/path/logwatch
endscript


Then it will run logwatch just before it rotates the file.
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