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Configuring Log Rotation of Apache2 and Other Logs

22/02/2024 Comments off

source: lifeonubuntu.com

I went to check out my apache2 logs

ls /var/log/apache2/

and I noticed that they were being automatically rotated (access.log, access.log.1, etc.) and compressed with gzip (access.log.2.gz, etc.). This seems to be the default Ubuntu configuration. I wanted to make find out more, and I found this helpful article about Ubuntu logs, including Apache2 Log info and some basic log rotation info.

After reading through the info, I decided that I wanted to make a few changes. The log rotation happens via the brilliantly named logrotate command. It turns out that logrotate settings kept in 2 places. Lire la suite…

Convert apache HTTP combined logs into SQL (and import it into a mysql database eventually)

28/01/2024 Comments off

source: snippets.dzone.com

you need to extract the data in your http server log files and put it in a database to query it with your usual tools using SQL. this perl script does just this.

it was hard to find it, that’s why i put it here.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Written by Aaron Jenson.
# Original source: http://www.visualprose.com/software.php
# Updated to work under Perl 5.6.1 by Edward Rudd
# Updated 24 march 2007 by Slim Amamou <slim.amamou@alpha-studios.com>
#  - output SQL with the option '--sql'
#  - added SQL create table script to the HELP
#
#  NOTE : you need the TimeDate library (http://search.cpan.org/dist/TimeDate/)
# Lire la suite...

Forcer logrotate à créer une nouvelle version d’un fichier de log

11/01/2024 Comments off

Récemment, je me suis aperçu que mon dernier fichier /var/log/auth.log n’avait pas été renouvelé depuis le 17/04/2011… Evidemment, ça n’aide pas à analyser sereinement les fichiers de logs, vu la taille que ça génère: 105306586 c’est-à-dire plus de 100Mo !

Je voulais conserver 26 semaines de logs pour analyser les tentatives d’intrusion et calculer leur évolution au fur et à mesure que je renforçais la protection de mon serveur.

Tout simple:

  • créer un fichier séparé pour auth.log qu’on appelle /etc/logrotate.d/auth:

/var/log/auth.log

{
        rotate 26
        weekly
        missingok
        notifempty
        compress
        delaycompress
        sharedscripts
        postrotate
                reload rsyslog >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
        endscript
}

  • retirer la référence à /var/log/auth.log dans /etc/logrotate.d/auth
  • redémarrer le service rsyslog:
/etc/init.d/rsyslog restart

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Change the IPTables log file

21/11/2023 Comments off

An important aspect of any firewall are the log files. Iptables on Linux provides logging functionality, however by default, it will get outputted to the /var/log/messages log file. This can clutter things up, and make it hard to check the logs.

If you want to change the file that IPTables logs to, you need to set up your iptables rules to output a log prefix. Rsyslog will then be configured to pick up this prefix, and output the information to a custom log file, containing just the iptables log information.
Install rsyslog if it is not already installed.

$ sudo apt-get install -y rsyslog

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How to monitor a log file on Linux with logwatch

31/10/2023 Comments off

Linux operating system and many applications create special files commonly referred to as “logs” to record their operational events. These system logs or application-specific log files are an essential tool when it comes to understanding and troubleshooting the behavior of the operating system and third-party applications. However, log files are not precisely what you would call “light” or “easy” reading, and analyzing raw log files by hand is often time-consuming and tedious. For that reason, any utility that can convert raw log files into a more user-friendly log digest is a great boon for sysadmins.

logwatch is an open-source log parser and analyzer written in Perl, which can parse and convert raw log files into a structured format, making a customizable report based on your use cases and requirements. In logwatch, the focus is on producing more easily consumable log summary, not on real-time log processing and monitoring. As such, logwatch is typically invoked as an automated cron task with desired time and frequency, or manually from the command line whenever log processing is needed. Once a log report is generated, logwatch can email the report to you, save it to a file, or display it on the screen.

A logwatch report is fully customizable in terms of verbosity and processing coverage. The log processing engine of logwatch is extensible, in a sense that if you want to enable logwatch for a new application, you can write a log processing script (in Perl) for the application’s log file, and plug it under logwatch.

One downside of logwatch is that it does not include in its report detailed timestamp information available in original log files. You will only know that a particular event was logged in a requested range of time, and you will have to access original log files to get exact timing information.

Installing Logwatch

On Debian and derivatives:

# aptitude install logwatch

On Red Hat-based distributions:

# yum install logwatch

Configuring Logwatch

During installation, the main configuration file (logwatch.conf) is placed in /etc/logwatch/conf. Configuration options defined in this file override system-wide settings defined in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf.

If logwatch is launched from the command line without any arguments, the custom options defined in /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf will be used. However, if any command-line arguments are specified with logwatch command, those arguments in turn override any default/custom settings in /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf.

In this article, we will customize several default settings of logwatch by editing /etc/logwatch/conf/logwatch.conf file.

Detail = <Low, Med, High, or a number>

“Detail” directive controls the verbosity of a logwatch report. It can be a positive integer, or High, Med, Low, which correspond to 10, 5, and 0, respectively.

MailTo = youremailaddress@yourdomain.com

“MailTo” directive is used if you want to have a logwatch report emailed to you. To send a logwatch report to multiple recipients, you can specify their email addresses separated with a space. To be able to use this directive, however, you will need to configure a local mail transfer agent (MTA) such as sendmail or Postfix on the server where logwatch is running.

Range = <Yesterday|Today|All>

“Range” directive specifies the time duration of a logwatch report. Common values for this directive are Yesterday, Today or All. When “Range = All” is used, “Archive = yes” directive is also needed, so that all archived versions of a given log file (e.g., /var/log/maillog, /var/log/maillog.X, or /var/log/maillog.X.gz) are processed.

Besides such common range values, you can also use more complex range options such as the following.

  • Range = “2 hours ago for that hour”
  • Range = “-5 days”
  • Range = “between -7 days and -3 days”
  • Range = “since September 15, 2014”
  • Range = “first Friday in October”
  • Range = “2014/10/15 12:50:15 for that second”

To be able to use such free-form range examples, you need to install Date::Manip Perl module from CPAN. Refer to this post for CPAN module installation instructions.

Service = <service-name-1>
Service = <service-name-2>
. . .

“Service” option specifies one or more services to monitor using logwath. All available services are listed in /usr/share/logwatch/scripts/services, which cover essential system services (e.g., pam, secure, iptables, syslogd), as well as popular application services such as sudo, sshd, http, fail2ban, samba. If you want to add a new service to the list, you will have to write a corresponding log processing Perl script, and place it in this directory.

If this option is used to select specific services, you need to comment out the line “Service = All” in /usr/share/logwatch/default.conf/logwatch.conf.

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Format = <text|html>

“Format” directive specifies the format (e.g., text or HTML) of a logwatch report.

Output = <file|mail|stdout>

“Output” directive indicates where a logwatch report should be sent. It can be saved to a file (file), emailed (mail), or shown to screen (stdout).

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