This whole thing makes KiwiSyslogger so helpful and extremely worth while.

Travis

  >-----Original Message-----
  >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darin Cox
  >Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:29 AM
  >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Huge Log Files and Queuemgr.exe showing high
  >utilization over 70% average
  >
  >
  >True...but you don't have to tail all of the time.  You can tail 
  >for a few
  >seconds, then stop and analyze the log.  But you're right in 
  >that filtering
  >is a glaring omission in BareTail.  Highlighting helps, but 
  >filtering would
  >be best...especially with a toggle feature that allows you to inspect
  >filtered out areas surrounding the results.
  >
  >Darin.
  >
  >
  >----- Original Message ----- 
  >From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
  >Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:17 PM
  >Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Huge Log Files and Queuemgr.exe showing high
  >utilization over 70% average
  >
  >
  >
  >>BareTail also works great and allows you to view the file in realtime.
  >>
  >><http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/>http://www.baremetalsoft
.com/bareta
il/

for high-volume logs, tailing is useless as the lines scroll past too fast
too read.

But combining tailing with filtering

tail -f /path/to/logfile | egrep -i "smtpd.*(string1|string2|string3)"

would only show "SMTPD" lines which also contain either of the 3 strings.

It looks like baretail doesn't do any filtering, and Ipswitch has chosen a
file open mode that doesn't permit tail.exe (from
http://unxutils.sourceforge.net) to tail (it can open and read the file,
but cannot -follow the added lines).   In my DNS classes, we use tail.exe
in a cmd window to tail the BIND log (which is written in a filemode that
allows reading).

Len



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