How To Install swatch on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swatch on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install swatch.
Install swatch on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install swatch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install swatch
Install swatch on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the swatch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove swatch
swatch Package Contents on Fedora 34
/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
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swatch on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.