/tags/personal-desktop/ Recent content in Personal Desktop on Amit Agarwal Linux Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:53:36 +0000 /2010/06/02/logwatch-for-linux-systems/ Wed, 02 Jun 2010 01:53:36 +0000 /2010/06/02/logwatch-for-linux-systems/ <p>On my personal &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/client&quot; title=&quot;Client (computing)&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client_%28computing%29&quot;&gt;desktop</a> at home, I like to see the &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/statistics&quot; title=&quot;Statistics&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics&quot;&gt;statistics</a> at least once a day, for what was installed, what was run with &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/sudo&quot; title=&quot;Sudo&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://www.sudo.ws/&quot;&gt;sudo</a> and other such details like &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/kernel&quot; title=&quot;Kernel (computing)&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_%28computing%29&quot;&gt;kernel</a> errors.</p> <p>Running this monotonously every day is quite boring, so comes to rescue is logwatch. I have &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/fedora&quot; title=&quot;Fedora&quot; rel=&quot;homepage&quot; href=&quot;http://fedoraproject.org/&quot;&gt;Fedora</a> &lt;a class=&quot;zem_slink freebase/en/installation&quot; title=&quot;Installation (computer programs)&quot; rel=&quot;wikipedia&quot; href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Installation_%28computer_programs%29&quot;&gt;installation</a> so I will talk about the location with respect to that so for your distribution it might be a little different.</p>