Viewing and managing log files using Logcheck
As an administrator, while checking for malicious activities on the system or any software issue, log files play a very important role. However, with an increasing amount of software, the number of log files being created has also increased. This makes it very difficult for the administrator to analyze log files properly.
In such scenarios, Logcheck is a good tool to help administrators analyze and scan log files. Logcheck scans logs for interesting lines as per its documentation. These lines mainly refer to security issues that have been detected by the tool.
Getting ready
No specific requirements are needed to use Logcheck on a Linux system.
How to do it…
In this section, we will take a look at how to install and configure Logcheck as per our requirements:
The first step is to install the package using the command shown in the following screenshot:
During the installation, a window will open and show you information about selecting a mail server configuration...
