Re: Fedora Core 2 Maintenance

From: m.marien (mm)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 10:19:47 -0600

"Paul Trimble" <maverickpt@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cg7lcr$fak$1@newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk...
> Hi guys, am new to Linux and have set up FC 2 as a samba server to be
> accessed from my WinXP machines. I have got rid of any packages I don't
> need and am trying to run the system with as small a footprint as
> possible -
> ie if I don't plan to use a package I don't install it. My question is
> what
> sort of maintenance should I been carrying out on this system. On Windows
> XP I run windowsupdate, update my drivers through MSI LiveUpdate, update
> AVG
> Anti Virus, Spybot & Ad-Aware as well as regulary running Chkdsk and
> Defrag
> etc. Apart from updating FC 2 through up2date is there anything else I
> should be doing or can you point me in the right direction to some info
> that
> I can read myself. Thanks in advance for the help,
>
> PT from NI
>

That's the great thing about it, there is no maintenance.

Kidding aside, there is a logwatch program that runs daily and picks out
what it thinks are odd occurances from the log files. You can have that
report mailed to you. By default it is mailed to root. I think you would
have to have sendmail running to deliver it, but I could be wrong. If
sendmail is running, add an alias for root to your email account. You can
also modify the MailTo = variable in the /etc/log.d/logwatch.conf file. The
alias is a better deal as any problems sent to root will then be sent to
you. This will keep you abreast of what's happening on your system.

You can also browse through the /var/log files but that is pretty tedious.

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