RE: [pmfirewall] Syslog Entries

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From: Jeremy Brooks (JeremyB@univista.com)
Date: Mon Nov 06 2000 - 08:55:47 PST

a really simple shell script would be:

cat /var/log/messages | grep "something" > /../../somefile.log.archive
tail 0 -f /var/log/messages > /../../somefile.log #not sure if the 0 is
in the right place

YOu could stick this in a PMF script if you wanted.
I'll try and work on a Perl script for you.
Are you familiar with Perl syntax?

-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Onanian [mailto:rick@mail.artmold.com]
Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:10 AM
To: pmfirewall@pointman.org
Subject: Re: [pmfirewall] Syslog Entries

Jeremy Brooks wrote:
> you could write a shell script (or perl if you want flexibility) to
> extract the messages you want and direct the output to some file. This
> could be automated too. It's not exactly realtime logging but it'll
> work. If you're interested I can help you work out the syntax. I'm
> dong something similar and it works fine.

I'd be interested in this; I've considered doing similar things
a few times myself. My concern is, how do you keep track of your
position in the log file so you don't keep getting the same stuff
over and over? I can figure out a few ways that require quite a
bit of cleaning-up that could conceivably eat up CPU and RAM on a
low-end box... but maybe in combination with 'tail -f', one could
minimize the need for the syncing and cleanup...

> ,Jeremy 

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