On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 18:44 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote: > At 1:28 AM -0500 10/3/05, micheal wrote: > >On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 02:53 -0300, Franck Y wrote: > >> Hi everyone, > >> > >> What are the main file (logs), that I sould check if the computer is > >>going well > >> . > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Franck > >> > > > >basically all the log files are in /var/logs > > Logwatch sends an email to root each day summarizing anything it thinks is > interesting (or rather, that it doesn't believe is uninteresting). You'd > need to log in as root and read the mail; maybe someone here has a better > approach. > ____________________________________________________________________ > TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/> > Here is what I have done. Edit /etc/aliases as root. Around the last line of the file there is something similiar to # Person who should get root's mail root: micheal I have it going to my local spool, however you can edit this with any e-mail address you wish. After you are done. run the command newaliases as root. Now all you have to do is check the mail for the e-mail you have set up as an 'alias' for root, and you are set. Micheal
