logwatch Cookbook

Installs logwatch

Requirements

Platforms

• Debian/Ubuntu
• RHEL/CentOS/Scientific/Amazon/Oracle

Chef

• Chef 11+

Cookbooks

• perl

Usage

Ensures that perl is installed to be used with logwatch and then installs logwatch.

Attributes

• node['logwatch']['email'] - Email Address which Logwatch reports to
• node['logwatch']['detail'] - The level of detail in the Logwatch report
• node['logwatch']['range'] - The default time range for the Logwatch report
• node['logwatch']['format'] - The format of the Logwatch report
• node['logwatch']['directives'] - Additional configuration options can be added here, comma separated, for example: default['logwatch']['directives'] = ['Print = Yes', 'Output = mail', 'Service = All']

License & Authors

Author: Cookbook Engineering Team ([email protected])

Copyright: 2009-2015, Chef Software, Inc.

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