Logcheck Installation --------------------- If you are running Debian, you will benefit from installing the .debs Otherwise, perform a manual install like this. ! These instructions are likely incomplete. If you had to do something different, please contact the logcheck team at logcheck-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org. -Extract logcheck and run make install. -Add an unpriviliged user for running logcheck. (typicallly named "logcheck") -chown -R logcheck /etc/logcheck /var/lock/logcheck /var/lib/logcheck -Be sure this user can access your log files -Edit logcheck configuration files in /etc/logcheck. Most importantly logcheck.conf. logcheck.logfiles contains a list of logfiles to be scanned. -Install logcheck cron job. There is a sample in debian/logcheck.cron.d To test your installation run "logcheck -ot"
