Re: best log checker

2007-02-04 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:21:37PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > most powerful regex syntax for that? Do you know that the original > purpose of Perl was log file parsing? If I were you, I'd invest in an I thought Perl was written to handle Usenet news posts. -- Chris. == Don't forge

Re: best log checker

2007-02-02 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 20:47 -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I'm trying to find a good log checker. > > Basically, I want it to report anything that I don't tell it to ignore. > > I've tried logcheck first and when I couldn't get it to do what I want I > tried logwatch. It has an ignore file

Re: best log checker

2007-02-01 Thread Paul Johnson
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I'm trying to find a good log checker. > > Basically, I want it to report anything that I don't tell it to ignore. > > I've tried logcheck first and when I couldn't get it to do what I want I > tried logwatch. It has an ignore file that it says to just cut and > pas

Re: best log checker

2007-02-01 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:15:32PM +, s. keeling wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:55:12AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Why doesn't someone make a companion interactive rule maker? Run it in

Re: best log checker

2007-02-01 Thread s. keeling
Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:55:12AM +, s. keeling wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > I've tried logcheck first and when I couldn't get it to do what I want I > > > tried logwatch. It has an ignore file that it says to jus

Re: best log checker

2007-01-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 02:55:12AM +, s. keeling wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm trying to find a good log checker. > > > > Basically, I want it to report anything that I don't tell it to ignore. > > Well, there's always a shell script that looks for date --yesterd

Re: best log checker

2007-01-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 10:21:37PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:47:20PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > I do neither perl nor RE: they're both too cryptic. I guess I'll never > > be a true *N*X weenie. > > > So, you want to be able to parse logs and yet

Re: best log checker

2007-01-31 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:47:20PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > I do neither perl nor RE: they're both too cryptic. I guess I'll never > be a true *N*X weenie. > So, you want to be able to parse logs and yet don't want to learn the most powerful regex syntax for that? Do you know that

Re: best log checker

2007-01-31 Thread s. keeling
Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to find a good log checker. > > Basically, I want it to report anything that I don't tell it to ignore. Well, there's always a shell script that looks for date --yesterday (nonportable), then grep -v 'string1|string2|...' Don't laugh. It's

best log checker

2007-01-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I'm trying to find a good log checker. Basically, I want it to report anything that I don't tell it to ignore. I've tried logcheck first and when I couldn't get it to do what I want I tried logwatch. It has an ignore file that it says to just cut and paste what you want to ignore. I do that and