Re: known loganalysis utilities (Was: Re: greetingz)

From: Mordechai T. Abzug (mortyat_private)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 19:51:38 PDT

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    On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 10:09:50PM +0200, Michael Radziej wrote:
    
    > I'm a little bit familiar with swatch and logsurfer, and
    > found both of them not powerful enough for me. I particularily
    > missed:
    > 
    > - smart handling of "message storms" when a message
    >   appears thousands of times
    > - better reports or some way to extend the reports mechanism
    
    log_analysis.
    
    See:
    http://linux.umbc.edu/~mabzug1/log_analysis.html
    
    > - a way to use the facility/priority information from syslog
    >   (which could help with unconfigured messages
    
    This information is usually discarded by your syslog daemon, unless
    you are separating things into different files, which is a PITA.  One
    solution is to replace your system syslog daemon with syslog-ng, which
    lets you modify the log format to include this info.
    
    See:
    http://www.balabit.hu/en/products/syslog-ng/
    
    - Morty
    
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