Syed Qutubuddin Ahmad ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > timestamps to human readable form ??. I have read man pages of multilog, > tai64n, and tai64nlocal, all these said is "you can use tai64nlocal to > convert timestamp to human readable form". None of these man pages told how > to use it with multilog. > Also will the size and count arguments be given after log filename?? > > I have the line like this : > exec /usr/local/bin/setuidgid qmaill /usr/loca/bin/multilog \ > t /var/log/qmail/smtpd
Hi, You do not really want to actually alter the timestamps in the logfile. What you want is to be able to read/browse them with human readable timestamps. I use the following script for tailing the logfile in realtime with human readable timestamps: qlog: #/bin/sh tail -f /var/qmail/service/qmail/log/main/current | tai64nlocal If you just want to browse the file, the following command works fine: tai64nlocal < /var/qmail/service/qmail/log/main/current | less Then you can use / and ? to search for strings forwards and backwards :-) -- Mike
