update-xlogmaster - create a configurationfile for xlogmaster

update-xlogmaster [-v]

Xlogmaster can monitor logfiles and other info. When a sysadmin installs a package containing a logfile, he would have to add a entry for this logfile to xlogmaster manually.

update-xlogmaster automatically generates a configfile for xlogmaster, if the debian package contains a file with entries for the logfiles provided by the package.

You can override these files and also provide entry files on your own which will be incorporated by update-xlogmaster.

update-xlogmaster should be run whenever a entry file is changed. It will be run automatically when debian packages that contain entry files are installed or removed from the system.

Information about the format of the entries can be found in /usr/doc/xlogmaster/tutorial.txt . When you want to set up a trigger, check the Policy first.

-v

Verbose output, show warnings.

Entry files: (Earlier listed directories override those listed later.) Entry files should be named after the logfile they provide an entry for.

/etc/xlogmaster/entries/*

Entry files created by the sysadmin to override the provided files and entries created by the sysadmin.

/usr/lib/xlogmaster/entries/*

Entry files provided by other debian packages.

/usr/lib/xlogmaster/entries/default/*

Entry files provided by the xlogmaster package. (These are for packages that don't provide entry files yet. If you see (or maintain) a package that supplies an entryfile in /usr/lib/xlogmaster/entries/, please email me and I'll remove that entry file from /usr/lib/xlogmaster/entries/default/).

README*

The README* files in the above mentioned directories are ignored.

Distribution is subject to the GNU public licence 2.

Martin Bialasinski <martinb@debian.org>

To the menu package creators. The general idea and setup as well as most documentation is adapted from their package.

xlogmaster(1), /usr/doc/xlogmaster/tutorial.txt