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====== Logging ======

What is logged, to where, reports, and to whom.


===== Access =====


===== Installation =====

Installed as the default Debian logging setup.


==== /etc/klogd/default ====

Change KLOGD line to read:
<file>
KLOGD="-c 5"
</file>
to turn off console messages for lower priority messages.

Technically, we should be changing the ''kernel.printk'' line in ''/etc/sysctl.conf'' instead, but that has not yet been tested.


==== logrotate.conf ====

Edit ''/etc/logrotate.conf'' to change the ''rotate'' option for ''/var/log/wtmp'' from ''1'' to ''25'', and ''/var/log/btmp'' from ''1'' to ''13''.

=== Later changes and corrections ===

Add option ''dateext'' to change the naming convention of adding
generation numbers ".1", ".2", etc. to  the "-yyyymmdd" format.
Also manually rename all existing log files to the new format.
Note this is the default in later releases.

Fix incorrect permissions for the ''/var/log/btmp'' entry
from ''0660'' to ''0600''.
Also chmod existing files to make the same change.
This is a well known bug fixed in later releases, but should be verified.
==== syslog.conf ====

Everything at level of info other than kern.info and mail.info goes to /var/log/messages. That was accomplished with:

  news.info;daemon.info;\
        auth.info;authpriv.info;\
        cron.info;syslog.info;\
        user.info               -/var/log/messages


OLD:
  #  /etc/syslog.conf	Configuration file for syslogd.
  #
  #			For more information see syslog.conf(5)
  #			manpage.
  
  #
  # First some standard logfiles.  Log by facility.
  #
  
  auth,authpriv.*			/var/log/auth.log
  *.*;auth,authpriv.none		-/var/log/syslog
  #cron.*				/var/log/cron.log
  daemon.*			-/var/log/daemon.log
  kern.*				-/var/log/kern.log
  lpr.*				-/var/log/lpr.log
  mail.*				-/var/log/mail.log
  user.*				-/var/log/user.log
  uucp.*				/var/log/uucp.log
  
  #
  # Logging for the mail system.  Split it up so that
  # it is easy to write scripts to parse these files.
  #
  mail.info			-/var/log/mail.info
  mail.warn			-/var/log/mail.warn
  mail.err			/var/log/mail.err
  
  # Logging for INN news system
  #
  news.crit			/var/log/news/news.crit
  news.err			/var/log/news/news.err
  news.notice			-/var/log/news/news.notice
  
  #
  # Some `catch-all' logfiles.
  #
  *.=debug;\
  	auth,authpriv.none;\
  	news.none;mail.none	-/var/log/debug
  *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\
  	auth,authpriv.none;\
  	cron,daemon.none;\
  	mail,news.none		-/var/log/messages
  
  #
  # Emergencies are sent to everybody logged in.
  #
  *.emerg				*
  
  #
  # I like to have messages displayed on the console, but only on a virtual
  # console I usually leave idle.
  #
  #daemon,mail.*;\
  #	news.=crit;news.=err;news.=notice;\
  #	*.=debug;*.=info;\
  #	*.=notice;*.=warn	/dev/tty8
  
  # The named pipe /dev/xconsole is for the `xconsole' utility.  To use it,
  # you must invoke `xconsole' with the `-file' option:
  # 
  #    $ xconsole -file /dev/xconsole [...]
  #
  # NOTE: adjust the list below, or you'll go crazy if you have a reasonably
  #      busy site..
  #
  daemon.*;mail.*;\
  	news.crit;news.err;news.notice;\
  	*.=debug;*.=info;\
  	*.=notice;*.=warn	|/dev/xconsole
===== Reporting =====


===== TODO =====

  * Setup daily system checks such as 
  - Root Kit Hunter http://www.rootkit.nl/projects/rootkit_hunter.html
  - logwatch http://www2.logwatch.org:81/
  - ckrootkit http://www.chkrootkit.org/


  * Enable tripwire
  * Determine what admins are to recieve daily log reports


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