Information about the package, swatch, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The swatch package is designed for, Tool for actively monitoring log files.
Package Name:
swatch
Summary:
Tool for actively monitoring log files
Description:
The Simple WATCHer is an automated monitoring tool that is capable of alerting system administrators of anything that matches the patterns described in the configuration file, whilst constantly searching logfiles using perl.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
3.2.3
Release:
7.el6
Size:
49 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the swatch package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install swatch
This command will install swatch on the server.
yum remove swatch
This command will un-install swatch on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove swatch, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove swatch
This command will un-install swatch on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove swatch when using the -y flag.
yum update swatch
This command will update swatch to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove swatch, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update swatch
This command will update swatch to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove swatch when using the -y flag.
yum info swatch
This command will show you core information about the swatch package.
yum deplist swatch
This command will show you the dependencies for swatch. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update swatch
This command will check if there is an update waiting on swatch. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.