Alison Chaiken wrote: > The main problem was that Debian, unlike Fedora, does not > automatically include logwatch. Therefore I was convinced that I > must use the preinstalled and similarly named logrotate to email > myself system logs, so naturally the man page that I read had > unfamiliar options, so I was confused.
Heh, if you want to "influence" what gets installed by default, do install popcon (popularity contest) and take part in the survey :) We do get "cleaner" installs in debian, it's a matter of taste. I like it because it gives me control over what happens in my system. > I'm still not getting messages from rkhunter, so that I will have to > investigate further. ~-amaya@io>nohash /etc/default/rkhunter CRON_DAILY_RUN="true" CRON_DB_UPDATE="true" DB_UPDATE_EMAIL="false" REPORT_EMAIL="root" APT_AUTOGEN="true" NICE="0" RUN_CHECK_ON_BATTERY="false" In fact, running dpkg-reconfigure rkhunter will ask all the right questions. > A lingering question is, should I edit root's crontab to run my backup > script, or just put it in /etc/cron.<frequency>? As far I can tell, > root should always use /etc/cron.<frequency> and users are forced to > use "crontab -e" since they can't edit /etc. Is this correct? Or > is using root's crontab sometimes indicated? It depends on your preference. I tend to to leave /etc/cron.* alone for packages to install their thing there, and add to root (crontab -e) only the stuff I add myself locally. -- .''`. The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are : :' : strong at the broken places. - Ernest Hemingway `. `' `- Proudly running Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120309152850.GA27882@aenima
