Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 08:08:54 -0600 From: Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> To: Thomas von Hassel <t@garbage.dk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best way to log from several servers Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.2.20030228080645.025f7c10@mail.servplex.com> In-Reply-To: <2B3CC68F-4B18-11D7-9EAA-003065B0995C@garbage.dk>
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You could write a Perl script to parse them and email them to you ... That's what I did for about 14 of my customers... I get an email daily that= =20 emails me the logs. You could take that a step further and have them FTP'd to a central server= =20 instead and then write another script to go through and display only those things in the log= =20 that look funny or out of the ordinary. Peter At 01:28 PM 2/28/2003 +0100, you wrote: >We have a few servers and we are getting tired of having to log into each= =20 >of them to check the logfile. (like tail -f /var/somelog) > >Is there a way to log things like /var/log/messages and /var/log/maillog=20 >to one central logging server ? > >/thomas >-- >Thomas von Hassel >Verm=F8 Gruppen ApS >Tlf.: 70 25 73 25 > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ----------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------------------------------ Peter Elsner <peter@servplex.com> Vice President Of Customer Service (And System Administrator) 1835 S. Carrier Parkway Grand Prairie, Texas 75051 (972) 263-2080 - Voice (972) 263-2082 - Fax (972) 489-4838 - Cell Phone (425) 988-8061 - eFax I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?" -- Mike Godwin Unix IS user friendly... It's just selective about who its friends are. System Administration - It's a dirty job, but somebody said I had to do it. If you receive something that says 'Send this to everyone you know, pretend you don't know me. Standard $500/message proofreading fee applies for UCE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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