awstats is a 'simple' web server monitor showing you information about the way visitors access your site - hmm also does some MTA's and ftp servers now.
a more comprehensive monitoring solution would be nagios, munin, catci or similar. -- Martin Hepworth Oxford, UK 2009/6/22 Sean Gibbins <s...@funkygibbins.me.uk> > Peter Merchant wrote: > > I just came across the following: > > > > > http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LPI_Linux_Certification/Junior_Level_Linux_Professional > > > > As a relatively new user, I have discovered that (most) of the logfiles > > of activity are in /var/log, and I was wondering how I use them to check > > up on my system. > > > > Still wondering, but in researching I came across this. Hope it helps > > someone. > > That looks like an interesting find Peter, thanks for the link. > > I guess the question I would ask you is what are you looking to check on > your system? > > I tend to dive into /var/log when there is something specifically wrong > and I am working on diagnosing the issue, but don't feel the need to > monitor anything in there as a rule. > > If you have a intermittent issue that pops a specific error message into > a log file when it manifests, then I guess you could script something to > poll the log file periodically and let you know when it appears. > > If however you want real-time monitoring of your system for the > availability of certain resources or services then I would look to > something like Awstats [1], although that's not trivial to set up > properly and probably overkill for a desktop machine. > > Sean > > [1] http://awstats.sourceforge.net/ > > -- > www.funkygibbins.me.uk > > > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, 2009-06-03 20:00 > Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset > -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, 2009-06-03 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
