I see this is for Unix systems. Anything in nt to do the same thing?
Jon Jackson
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-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Guo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 10:08 AM
To: 'Jason Witty'; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [FW1] logviewer slow response
Thanks, Jason and all the kindly responses. I get my info from "fw log". It
works.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Witty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 7:44 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [FW1] logviewer slow response
Ever use the "fw log" command-line ;-? It sends the logs to stdout, where
you can then grep on things, etc. It still isn't very useful when the logs
are very large, but at least it's another way of viewing the logs....
At 07:23 AM 8/15/00 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>I too would like to improve the response of the log viewer. However much
the
>base firewall product has improved over the last few years, the log view
>application is still rubbish. In a moderately busy environment it's not
upto
>the job (IMO). In many respects (if possible) a plaintext log file and
>judicious use of tail & grep would probably yield better results.....
>
>Now what'd be nice is if someone tells me that this is possible....
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>Regards
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>[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 14/08/2000 16:37:01
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>cc: (bcc: Simon Devlin/GB/ABNAMRO/NL)
>Subject: RE: [FW1] logviewer slow response
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>Besides switching to Gauntlet? (kidding)
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>Clear out your log directory? it's in $FWLOG/log
>
>What I do is create another volume just for Logs. I mounted it in
>/var/log/fw1
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>I then do this:
>
>fwstop
>mv $FWDIR/log/* /var/log/fw1
>fwstart
>
>I find that the log viewer is then ALOT more acceptable, but it still is a
>pain.
>
>I don't exactly know where the problem is. I had this call in at
checkpoint
>for about 2 months before I gave up on them. I had it escalated to the
test
>bench and then all the way to Israel but they were unable to help.
>
>What version of FW1 are you running?
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Simon Guo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:56 AM
>> To: 'Joe Voisin'; Simon Guo; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: [FW1] logviewer slow response
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>> Joe,
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>> I tried your trick. I turn off the "Resolve Addresses" option from the
>> logviewer, log off, login again. The phenomena persist.
>> The error: "Slow response from server. Abort?"
>>
>> Any other idea?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joe Voisin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 10:34 AM
>> To: 'Simon Guo'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Subject: RE: [FW1] logviewer slow response
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>> Yeah, I'm used to this problem...
>>
>> Turn off name resolution in options and reload the log
>> viewer.. it should be
>> a bit better.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: Simon Guo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 9:59 AM
>> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Subject: [FW1] logviewer slow response
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>> >
>> >
>> > Please help! I opened the logviewer and no log shows up. The
>> > message, no
>> > response. The logviewser looks fine before yesterday. Now the
>> > status is
>> > "getting date from server ..." and hang on this forever.
>> >
>> > What's worng? I can telnet to the server, and the utilization
>> > is low (on
>> > uptime, average is 0.8 user).
>> >
>> > Simon
>> >
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