In some email I received from Syed Qutubuddin Ahmad at Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 11:48:58PM +0500: > >> Hi, > >> thanks for help. the commands you suggested will be great for me. > >> But i > >> move logfiles periodically at another machine which may not be > >> necessarily a linux machine(can be windows :( ), plus daemontools > >> might not be installed on it. Also my supervisor needs to view > >> logfiles himself sometimes, and he wants human readable time > >> stamps.:(:(. > > So you have a solution now, after all - multilog is rotating log files > > when they reach 240**** something, depends how your logging settings > > are configured. However, if freebsd/bsd - use newsyslog. Otherwise > > write a small script that rotates the log files at midnight and > > converts it to a human readable format.. something like.. > > > > svc -d /service/* > > in a loop: > > mv %logfile /var/log.db/%log-%data > > bzip it(for max compression) > > touch %logfile > > > > Thanks, I can do it through a script. I was just hoping that there might be > a way within multilog to convert timestamps to human readable form > automatically. Otherwise i can write a script for that. > Anyway, thanks for your hints. > > > and stick it in the cron tab file.. anyways.. you got the drift. > > after converted email them to your boss/supervise.. its amazing how > > computer illiterated are most of the IT managers? g`luck. > > > He is not that illiterate :). He just want me to do it for him. > Also 'tai64nlocal' binary cannot be installed on every machine on our > network. So we have to do something for future easeness. :-). i`m sorry, if i wasnt correct, anyways. uhm you can use rsync/ftp any client<->server solution to harvest the daily logfiles from the server to one *main* server.
take care, -lk > > > take care, > > -lou > > > >> Thats why i still need some method to write human readable > >> timestamps in > >> logfiles directly.. > >> > >> Thanks again for help. > > -- > > Regards, > > Lou Kamenov > > [ Network Infrastructure/Security Analyst ] > > [ AEYE R&D - http://www.aeye.net ] > > [ AEYE Commercial - http://www.aeye-web.com ] > > I am also getting spam mails. One mail from "Webstream" always come to my > inbox whenever i post a message to this list. That mails says "we have > sent this mail to you because you mailed us" :-o . > > -- > Syed Qutubuddin Ahmad > Network Engineer > CubeXS Private Limited. > > > -- br, Lou Kamenov [ Network Infrastructure/Security Analyst ] [ c/o AEYE Ltd, London, UK ] [AEYE R&D - http://www.aeye.net ] [ AEYE Commercial - http://www.aeye-web.com ] [ phone: +44 (0) 20 89469546 ] [ fax: +44 (0) 7092 129079 ] [ mobile: +44 (0) 7905 514036 ] [ AEYE is Artificial Intelligence ]
