Logwatch

About
logwatch is a daily task that summarizes the logs on a machine and generates a nicely-formatted email message describing them.

Installation
Install it by executing emerge -av logwatch. In the default configuration, logwatch will run on a nightly basis and email the results to root.

Configuration
This part is non-obvious. The default configuration is in. You can add/override settings there by adding them to. Note that the conf/ directory does not exist on a fresh install. Here are some suggestions:

Date Format Scripts
Logwatch has a number of scripts to interpret different date formats. They're listed here for reference. Note that the format string parameters can be found in the strftime man page