2

The manpage of logwatch says:

The format of the range option is: --range "date_range [period]"

Parameter date_range (and optional period) must be enclosed in quotes if it is ...

Examples:

--range today --range yesterday --range '4 hours ago for that hour' --range '-3 days' --range 'since 2 hours ago for those hours' --range 'between -10 days and -2 days' --range 'Apr 15, 2005' --range 'first Monday in May' --range 'between 4/23/2005 and 4/30/2005' --range '2005/05/03 10:24:17 for that second'

but none of those options work on my Debian Squeeze machine.

How do you use the --range option correctly?

Improve this question
1
  • The examples are already given by you. What exactly do you want? Commented Apr 9, 2013 at 8:02

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
2

I found out myself:

if you scroll up the output after you try to call logwatch with --range, you see at the start:

ERROR: Range '4 hours ago for that hour' not understood

This system does not have Date::Manip module loaded, and therefore the only valid --range parameters are 'yesterday', 'today', or 'all'. The Date::Manip module can be installed by using either of:

apt-get install libdate-manip-perl cpan -i 'Date::Manip' perl -MCPAN -e 'install Date::Manip'

this takes quite a while to install, but then it works

Improve this answer

You must log in to answer this question.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.