README.SuSE

choeger, 4.5.98

Argus is a network-monitoring-tool.
Take a look at /usr/doc/packages/README* for details.

Please change the variables in /etc/sysconfig/argus if you need.

A daily restart-script may look like this:

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#!/bin/sh

rcargus stop
mv /var/log/argus.log /var/log/argus.`date +"%y%m%d"`.log
gzip -9 /var/log/argus.`date +"%y%m%d"`.log
rcargus start
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you may copy it to /root/bin/argus_restart and add the following to your
/etc/crontab:

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50 17 * * * root /root/bin/argus_restart
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if you want to restart argus at 17:50 (5:50pm).

Use the tools 'ra' and 'services' to take a look in your captured
argus-data.