Michael D. Berger

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  • secure file not updating bit swatch runs

    On my Centos 5 server, the secure file has not updated since Dec 10. This despite the fact that I run an sshd server that I access many times per day. Most peculiar is the fact that a swatch monitor that I run on the secure file catches plenty of lines. It is as if when swatch catches a line in the file, the line is removed from the file and the modification date is set back. But then,

    2008-12-14 02:50:49 UTC in Swatch

  • Followup: RE: Problems with "--tail-file" argument

    Delphine, I have several swatch processes, each watching one file, thus: OPTIONS="--tail-file=/var/log/file1 \ --config-file=/var/myConfig/swatch_config_1 \ --script-dir=/root/.swatch_tmp --daemon" daemon $swatch_prog $OPTIONS OPTIONS="--tail-file=/var/log/file2 \...

    2007-05-02 15:57:39 UTC in Swatch

  • --tail-args problem

    On Fedora Core 4, I am trying to use swatch to monitor several files. I am using a tail procedure I found on the net in my /etc/init.d/swatchd. Here is the crital fragment: touch $VAR_SUBSYS_SWATCH echo -n "Starting $swatch_prog: " mkdir -p /root/.swatch_tmp daemon $swatch_prog \ --tail-program-name=/usr/bin/tail \...

    2006-05-19 15:40:31 UTC in Swatch

  • logrotate and swatch

    On RH E WS 4, using swatch v3.1.1, I monitor /var/log/secure. After the logrotate event, I saw nothing. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike.

    2006-01-08 19:41:09 UTC in Swatch

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