Log analyser for general use ?

2001-08-29 Thread Nicolas Bouthors
Hi, I'm looking for a program that would allow the watching of logfiles (mainly syslog), and could choose to perfom an action (like sending a mail or other) when a certain line/sequence appears in the files. Idealy it would be easily configurable through regexps, run as a daemon and be able

Re: Log analyser for general use ?

2001-08-29 Thread Peter Billson
Nicolas Bouthors wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a program that would allow the watching of logfiles (mainly syslog), and could choose to perfom an action (like sending a mail or other) when a certain line/sequence appears in the files. Idealy it would be easily configurable through

Re: Log analyser for general use ?

2001-08-29 Thread Marek L. Kozak
Nicolas Bouthors wrote: Hi, Idealy it would be easily configurable through regexps, run as a daemon and be able to watch any number of log files... I use logcheck, it's in your distro. It runs from cron every hour, mails anomalies and is easy to maintain. -- Regards, Marek L. Kozak -- To

Re: Log analyser for general use ?

2001-08-29 Thread Christian Kurz
On 01-08-29 Nicolas Bouthors wrote: I already found about - Logsurfer (http://www.cert.dfn.de/eng/logsurf/) - Swatch (http://oit.ucsb.edu/~eta/swatch/) - and many other restricted to *webserver* logs (which is not what I want) |Package: swatch |Priority: optional |Section: admin