How To Install logwatch on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install logwatch
on CentOS 7.
What is logwatch
Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system. It will go through your logs for a given period of time and make a report in the areas that you wish with the detail that you wish. Easy to use - works right out of the package on many systems.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install logwatch
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install logwatch.
Install logwatch on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install logwatch
using yum
by running the following command:
Install logwatch on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install logwatch
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall logwatch on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the logwatch
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install logwatch
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.