> Since you almost certainly want to maintain a single process to handle > the logged lines, why not just write a tail-like program that parses > them one by one as they're written? After all, you'd hardly want to > slog through all the log-entries multiple times anyway. > With this solution, I find it hard to see a need for uniqueness. should > it happen that you still want to be able to uniquely identify lines, I > believe a hash over the last 15 or so lines should suffice, assuming > it's sufficiently strong (say, SHA1 or something). The chance of running > into a collision should be very slim, and if it happens you can just > increase the number of hashed lines. > > -- > Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se
Thanks for the advice Andreas, I'll take a look into this approach. Cheers, Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
