How To Install swatch on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install swatch on Rocky Linux 8. swatch is Tool for actively monitoring log files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install swatch on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `swatch`

The Simple WATCHer is an automated monitoring tool that is capable of alerting system administrators of anything that matches the patterns described in the configuration file, whilst constantly searching logfiles using perl.

We can use yum or dnf to install swatch on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install swatch.

Install swatch on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install swatch using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install swatch

Install swatch on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install swatch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install swatch

How To Uninstall swatch on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the swatch package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove swatch

swatch Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/swatch
/usr/share/doc/swatch
/usr/share/doc/swatch/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/swatch/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/swatch/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/swatch/KNOWN_BUGS
/usr/share/doc/swatch/README
/usr/share/doc/swatch/examples
/usr/share/doc/swatch/examples/SendMail.pm
/usr/share/doc/swatch/tools
/usr/share/doc/swatch/tools/reswatch
/usr/share/doc/swatch/tools/swatch_oldrc2newrc
/usr/share/man/man1/swatch.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Swatch::Actions.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Swatch::Threshold.3pm.gz
/usr/share/man/man3/Swatch::Throttle.3pm.gz
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Swatch
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Swatch/Actions.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Swatch/Actions.pm.zombies
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Swatch/Threshold.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/Swatch/Throttle.pm
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Swatch
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Swatch/Actions
/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Swatch/Actions/autosplit.ix

References

swatch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install swatch on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.