If you’re not combing through your log files on a daily basis, you run the risk of missing crucial system information. Here’s how to make this task easy on Linux, with Logwatch. We may earn from ...

From attempted hacks to security breaches, systems monitoring is an important undertaking. And with all the logs that are available on a Linux system, a systems administrator certainly has the tools ...

Hi there LKF,<br><br>About ten days ago I started to receive the daily logwatch reports from a box on another domain on my inbox.<br>I'm the network admin, the Linux guy, for a company that has a dot ...

Topic ===== local root exploit in logwatch Problem Description ===== LogWatch is a customizable log analysis system. Versions of LogWatch 2.1.1 and earlier have a vulnerability due to a race condition ...

Description: From the Ubuntu advisory: Dominik George discovered that logwatch did not properly sanitize log file names that were passed to the shell as part of a command. If a remote attacker were ...