[SAC] Logwatch

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

On Jun 9, 2010, at 4:23 AM, ext christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> As part of cron.daily, a program called "Logwatch" is being run on osgeo1. This program is apparently analyzing system logs, and appears to be quite CPU intensive -- it used up an entire CPU for over 15 minutes, as well as a significant amount of disk activity.
> 
> Do we need this program? Is it doing anything we care about, and is it worth the cost of having the system slowdown at this time every day?
> 

Further investigation shows that this logwatch is configured with the default config, and is only going to the 'root' account (redirected to the 'sbarnes' account) on the OSGeo local server. I have removed logwatch from cron.daily. If we wish to re-enable it at some point, we should recreate this symlink:

lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   28 Sep  3  2008 00-logwatch -> ../log.d/scripts/logwatch.pl

in /etc/cron.daily/

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Nokia