How To Install swatch on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swatch on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install swatch.
Install swatch on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install swatch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install swatch
Install swatch 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 swatch using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install swatch
How To Uninstall swatch on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the swatch package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove swatch
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swatch on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.