LOGWATCH.CONF(5)

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💖 LOGWATCH.CONF(5) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the Linux Programmer's Manual — we're doing LOGWATCH.CONF(5) today and honestly? it's giving config files that run the whole vibe check on your logs. ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

logwatch.conf, ignore.conf, override.conf — the logwatch configuration files. that's the whole trio, periodt. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so there's three of them and they each have their own little main character energy:

  • logwatch.conf — lives at /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf — and it's where your local configuration options go. you want the full list of valid settings and what they default to? that's all chillin' in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf. go look, i'll wait. 🫶
  • ignore.conf — lives at /etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf — and it is literally a list of regular expressions. whatever set of logs those regexes describe gets ignored by logwatch. poof, not on the roster anymore. 🚫
  • override.conf — lives at /etc/logwatch/conf/override.conf — and this one holds the settings that override the standard configuration of specific log files or services. the syntax is the same as in the log/service files, so if you know one you know the other. iykyk. 💜

🌸 FILES 🌸

these ones, right here:

/etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf
/etc/logwatch/conf/ignore.conf
/etc/logwatch/conf/override.conf
/usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf

⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

  • logwatch(8) — go read the big one, bestie, it's right there. 👑
not me ending the page with a cute little sign-off 🥺 this was brought to you by the GNU girlies, dated 2010-02-10, and yes she's still iconic all these years later. bye babe, go configure something 💖🎀🦋✨
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