Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name : logwatch Version : 5.1 Upstream Author : Kirk Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.logwatch.org * License : MIT Description : system log analysis utility
Logwatch is a collection of perl scripts that analyze system logs and email summaries to system administrators. It can provide a very useful early-warning system, especially for people who may not read through all their system logs every day. I've been using logwatch for some time on Red Hat-based systems and would like to use it on my Debian systems as well. If no one else is already doing this or has a reason to object, I would like to package this for Debian and be its maintainer (pending approval of the upstream author). I'm quite familiar with this package, having written at least one filter and having submitted patches upstream in the past. If no one beats me to it, I'll probably do this over the next several weeks as I transition my servers from Red Hat to Debian. Once I have a lintian/linda-clean package that conforms to the Debian Policy and that seems to work properly for my systems, I'll put this up somewhere and request a sponsor on debian-mentors. I have not yet done any work on this; I have merely observed that logwatch does not appear to be present in Debian and has not apparently been requested either. -- Jay Berkenbilt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ql.org/q/