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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install logwatch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install logwatch
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install logwatch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install logwatch
How To Uninstall logwatch on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the logwatch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove logwatch
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install logwatch on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
