Solid perspective on the Linux situation today.
Well this is what Linux is. There is no extra large sum of money you pay upfront for the computer like for your Macbook.
The trick is to take advantage of the freedom of Linux and spread the frustration over 10 months or 10 years.
As you can expect from a handful of Pi engineers, they can only offer you a 1 taste basic thing. And only the basic board HW is essentially their responsibility. The bonus is that you download a pre-installed Linux. The rest is all DIY.
If you want a less frustrating learning curve, first get to know how you install Debian Linux the normal way, on an old laptop or virtual machine on your Macbook. You will need to focus on what RPL does not and avoids: Multiple (root)partitions, bootmanagers. Things that are needed for competition, diversity, flexability. Also, first understand the principles, then use the tools. If you are just a tool user assuming all tools are perfect and self explaining, it is hard to see the fun of it all.
I did not know logwatch, could have used it as I still don not have a good way to get notified about (fatal) problems. But it relies on 3rd party (email service). Look around, email=95%spam, stay away from it. Use a VPN so your remote computers can write the report as a file on your local computer. See https://www.wireguard.com/quickstart/
It might be that logwatch cannot handle modern binary comprehensive journal, I don't know. I keep the logs as they are, only look at them if trouble. That will announce itself because then TV or internet or lights/electricity does not work because it all runs on Pi4.
As far as logwatch, it is a "log reviewer", not a "live log watcher" (ala fail2ban). Although I use logwatch (and have been for over 2 decades), I very rarely have any actionable issues from it.
And logwatch works fine with Bookworm. I've been running it with no problem since I brought up my Bookworm systems. Whatever issues ratsima is having are not due to logwatch being bookworm-deficient. That said, logwatch IS a fairly complex set of perl scripts with many different ways to configure it, so there are plenty of opportunities to duff it.
Statistics: Posted by bls — Sat Nov 09, 2024 2:34 pm
