purely license issues.  im not paying an arm and a leg for software for a
one-off job

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Chris Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:

> Out of interest, what where the problems you had with splunk? This looks
> like exactly the kind of problem it was designed to solve.
>
>
> allison nixon wrote:
>
> I got it to work.  I ended up using mysql and some command line shenanigans
>
> For the benefit of everyone who might be faced with 40 gigs of log files,
> I ended up doing this:
>
> use split -l 5000 * to split every file into a reasonable sized chunk
>
> then used ls -l to get a list of file names in the folder in a nice
> orderly fashion
>
> then created a sql database and a table called client, and set every
> column type to the sort of data it would end up holding
>
> then write a bash script that was like below. the commands were slightly
> altered based on the name of every file, so the script had about 750 lines
> in total.  there's probably a more elegant way to do this, with fancy
> looping and variables, but no time for that.
>
> ln -s datetime-websenselog.csvaa client.txt; mysqlimport
> --fields-terminated-by=, --lines-terminated-by="\r\n" -u user
> --password=password --fields-optionally-enclosed-by="\""
> --columns=id,userid,hostid,wdate,wtime,wuts,srcip,srcport,dstport,dstip,resource,bytes,xfertime,code,category,allowed,hid,hostname,uid,username
> client /root/Desktop/client/tobeanalyzed/Files/raw/splitted/client.txt; rm
> client.txt;
>
> the symbolic link is necessary because mysqlimport will only put the file
> into the table of the same name
> then i had to tweak it till the warnings went away, because mysqlimport
> won't tell you the contents of those warnings, only that they have been
> raised.  after some guessing games, I found out some but not all fields
> were enclosed with "
>
> Now i can run sql queries and it's somewhat trivial to find the
> information i'm after now!
>
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Champ Clark III <[email protected]>wrote:
>
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>> Actually thinking about this liblognorm might be useful. It comes with
>> a program call "normalizer".  You'll need to create the rulebase
>> files/rules.  That'll be the tricky part.
>>
>> If you do create good rulebase/rules, let me know. I'd like to have a
>> copy :)
>>
>>
>> On 6/9/13 1:16 AM, Johan Peder Møller wrote:
>> > Have looked at liblognorm. No personal experience, but remeber
>> > having it recomended at some time.
>> >
>> > rgds Johan
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 3:36 AM, allison nixon <[email protected]
>> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> >
>> > So I have several gigs of webnonsense logs and I am trying to
>> > construct a timeline of malware infection as it spreads from IP to
>> > IP.  I already know what the malicious URLs look like so that's
>> > not the issue.  I want to be able to build a timeline of activity
>> > to describe the first moment a computer was infected and I want to
>> > illustrate when the phone home traffic hops from domain to domain.
>> >
>> > I can sort of do it with some artful use of grep and excel, but
>> > it's hard to make that scale to more than a small sample of the
>> > logs.  I fed it to a trial copy of Splunk and it exploded while
>> > giving me nothing useful.  Are there any tools out there that I can
>> > use for this?  I don't want to pay money for it because it's a
>> > one-off, but so far nothing can compete with good ol grep
>> >
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