Re: [logs] checking logs for time holes

From: Oddbjorn Steffensen (oddbjorn@private)
Date: Tue Oct 07 2003 - 05:31:38 PDT

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    On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:09:37PM -0400, Anton A. Chuvakin wrote:
    > Loooong time ago I saw a program which was used to check log files for
    > "time holes". So, for example, if you usually have a message from host
    > "box1" every 3-5 minutes and this time there is a 30 minute hole with
    > nothing from "box1", I want to know about it.
    
    logsurfer (http://www.cert.dfn.de/eng/logsurf/) can
    do this using rule timeouts; from the man page:
    
    timeout_rel         In addition to the absolute timeout  you
                        are  also  able  to  specify  a relative
                        timeout specifing the number of  seconds
                        since the last message was added to this
                        context. This  is  a  kind  of  inactive
                        timer  you can use to launch the default
                        action if  there  are  no  new  messages
                        stored  in  this  context  for a certain
                        amount of time.
    
    
    -oddbjorn
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