The syslog on most systems writes to a file, and since all events are written in the order in which they occurred, you will always get the latest messages at the end of the file.
You could use sort to get the file in the reverse order (the date/time at which the message was posted is always part of every entry).
--EDIT
Tested on Solaris 8.
Last edited by blowtorch; 08-11-2006 at 12:07 AM..
Reason: put in code
Hi
If we have for example a disk that is experiencing problems, ie read errors etc, a message will get generated via syslog every one minute....I come in the morning to hundreds upon hundreds of the same message. Is there anyway to change this to say 5 minutes or maybe 10 mins etc so that it... (1 Reply)
Hello Guys...
I am bit new to shell scripting and was looking for help !!
I have got syslog data on a linux server recording log messages from a device.
I need to seperate the data from log to file so that I can push it excell and get a report from that.
Log is in the format below
"... (2 Replies)
Hi,
I'm using HP-UX 11.11 on HP9000/800 PA-RISC system.I am getting the below messages daily in /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log file.Can someone help me out in this regard, why I am getting this messages & how to resolve it. I am using SSH version(HP-UX Secure Shell-A.04.20.004)
Messages:
Nov 26... (2 Replies)
Good Day.
Any idea on the messages log. it would be a great help to us. Upon checking the on the system logs, I found the following messages:
EXT3-fs: INFO: recovery required on readonly filesystem.
EXT3-fs: write access will be enabled during recovery.
kjournald... (1 Reply)
Hi
Is there any setting in the syslog.conf that I can define a string to disable certain type of message that is generated in the message file
for example I want to stop these type of messages getting generated.
UnablAug 18 07:06:30 local1:warn|warning KCML: WARNING /usr/local/kcml/kcml... (3 Replies)
Hi to all.
I'm trying to sort this with the Unix command sort.
user1:12345678:3.5:2.5:8:1:2:3
user2:12345679:4.5:3.5:8:1:3:2
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2
user4:12345670:5.5:2.5:5:3:2:1
user5:12345671:2.5:5.5:7:2:3:1
I need to get this:
user3:12345687:5.5:2.5:6:1:3:2... (7 Replies)
Hello all -
I am to this forum and fairly new in learning unix and finding some difficulty in preparing a small shell script. I am trying to make script to sort all the files given by user as input (either the exact full name of the file or say the files matching the criteria like all files... (3 Replies)
Input file:
100%ABC2 3.44E-12 USA
A2M%H02579 0E0 UK
100%ABC2 5.34E-8 UK
100%ABC2 3.25E-12 USA
A2M%H02579 5E-45 UK
Output file:
100%ABC2 3.44E-12 USA
100%ABC2 3.25E-12 USA
100%ABC2 5.34E-8 UK
A2M%H02579 0E0 UK
A2M%H02579 5E-45 UK
Code try:
sort -k1,1 -g -k2 -r input.txt... (2 Replies)
Hi Experts,
I have a filelist collected from another server , now want to sort the output using date/time stamp filed.
- Filed 6, 7,8 are showing the date/time/stamp.
Here is the input:
#----------------------------------------------------------------------
-rw------- 1 root ... (3 Replies)
I've heard that syslog in Solaris10 doesn't repeat duplicate messages and displays "last message repeated n times."
Is there a way to increase the time interval, so that more messages are recognized as duplicates?
thanks. (0 Replies)
Discussion started by: orange47
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sortm
SORTM(1) [nmh-1.5] SORTM(1)NAME
sortm - sort messages
SYNOPSIS
sortm [+folder] [msgs] [-datefield field] [-textfield field] [-notextfield] [-limit days] [-nolimit] [-verbose | -noverbose] [-version]
[-help]
DESCRIPTION
Sortm sorts the specified messages in the named folder according to the chronological order of the "Date:" field of each message.
The -verbose switch directs sortm to tell the user the general actions that it is taking to place the folder in sorted order.
The -datefield field switch tells sortm the name of the field to use when making the date comparison. If the user has a special field in
each message, such as "BB-Posted:" or "Delivery-Date:", then the -datefield switch can be used to direct sortm which field to examine.
The -textfield field switch causes sortm to sort messages by the specified text field. If this field is "subject", any leading "re:" is
stripped off. In any case, all characters except letters and numbers are stripped and the resulting strings are sorted datefield-major,
textfield-minor, using a case insensitive comparison.
With -textfield field, if -limit days is specified, messages with similar textfields that are dated within `days' of each other appear
together. Specifying -nolimit makes the limit infinity. With -limit 0, the sort is instead made textfield-major, date-minor.
For example, to order a folder by date-major, subject-minor, use:
sortm -textfield subject +folder
FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine the user's nmh directory
Current-Folder: To find the default current folder
SEE ALSO folder(1)DEFAULTS
`+folder' defaults to the current folder
`msgs"'defaultstoall"
`-datefield' defaults to date
`-notextfield'
`-noverbose'
`-nolimit'
CONTEXT
If a folder is given, it will become the current folder. If the current message is moved, sortm
will preserve its status as current.
HISTORY
Timezones used to be ignored when comparing dates: they aren't any more.
Messages which were in the folder, but not specified by `msgs', used to be moved to the end of the folder; now such messages are left
untouched.
Sortm sometimes did not preserve the message numbering in a folder (e.g., messages 1, 3, and 5, might have been renumbered to 1, 2, 3 after
sorting). This was a bug, and has been fixed. To compress the message numbering in a folder, use "folder -pack" as always.
BUGS
If sortm encounters a message without a date-field, or if the message has a date-field that sortm cannot parse, then sortm attempts to keep
the message in the same relative position. This does not always work. For instance, if the first message encountered lacks a date which
can be parsed, then it will usually be placed at the end of the messages being sorted.
When sortm complains about a message which it can't temporally order, it complains about the message number prior to sorting. It should
indicate what the message number will be after sorting.
MH.6.8 11 June 2012 SORTM(1)