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.
