Monitoring Unix logs

[Ian Chard]

Hi,

I'm wondering how other Nagios users use check_log to monitor their
Unix logs.  I've got my Nagios server also acting as a central syslog
server, so I have all messages in one place and run check_log over
all of them.  I have a couple of questions:

- is it best to set these services up as volatile?
- has anyone compiled a list of "bad words" to watch for in the logs
   of particular version of Unix?

Incidentally, the first thing I did was modify check_log so that it
uses egrep instead of grep (so I can match things like "error|warning").

Cheers
- Ian

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