I replied directly to Eric earlier this week, but this is something relatively easy to accomplish with SEC at http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net/
By configuring a stanza with a simple * regex and a timer, you can keep resetting the timer every time a new log entry comes in. --Patrick On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Eric Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > I occasionally have to dig through logs of various kinds... tomcat, > apache, java programs (log4j),.... > > And I've wondered if I should write this tool, or maybe it exists. > Is there something that will tell me when there are gaps in a log > file? I would specify the format of the date/time info, then specify > how big a gap I want to know about, and it would scan, ripping out the > date/time & do the date math and when it got a big enough time gap > between messages it would tell me. > > Maybe it would print the line number the gap started on and the start > and stop date. Pipe a grep into this command and it could be a really > powerful way to gain some insight into my logs. > > I keep being surprised by the tools available in unix.... ggrep with > -A and -B (awesome), I almost wrote xargs years ago until someone told > me about it, .... > Maybe this one already exists and my google-fu isn't strong enough to find > it. > > I could write it in perl myself, but I'd rather not if I don't have to. :) > > Any thoughts? > > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > bblisa mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa >
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