Logcheck Installation ===================== Extract the file logcheck-x.x.x.tar.gz by using command tar -xvzf logcheck-x.x.x.tar.gz Change to the created directory cd logcheck-x.x.x/ and edit files logcheck.whitelist and logcheck.logfiles. logcheck.conf ------------- Please change parameters in logcheck.conf. Check twice for correct mail settings! logcheck.whitelist ------------------ Contains a list of phrases to ignore as "ok". Each single line you place here will be ignored when parsing the logfiles. A line can also be a regular expression, please look into the logfiles.whitelist for more information. logcheck.logfiles ----------------- Contains the path to the logfiles which should be parsed by logcheck.pl. Each line represents one logfile with full path. When running as cron don't use relative paths! checking installation --------------------- Run the command /path/to/logcheck.pl debug to check your installation. Emails will not become sent in debug mode. installing a cronjob -------------------- Use command crontab -e and put a line similar to the follwing into it: */10 * * * * /path/to/logcheck.pl Thats it...