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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Should I use PERL or Shell scripting? Post 302257770 by Diabolist on Thursday 13th of November 2008 03:51:13 AM
Old 11-13-2008
I would look into using an out of the box, open source tool to get what you need done. The online docs leave a lot to be desired, but OSSEC is a really powerful tool for log parsing (Welcome to the Home of OSSEC), and it's free.

No need to reinvent the wheel.

And for what you're doing, it's not enough just to grep through a log. You need to keep track of what you already processed so you're not spamming the same alert every time your script runs.

Security ecompasses so much more than poking through a log.

Good luck.
 

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Sendpage::KeesLog(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				    Sendpage::KeesLog(3pm)

NAME
Sendpage::KeesLog - implements a logging subsystem SYNOPSIS
$log=Sendpage::KeesLog->new(); $log->on(); $log->do('crit',"Something bad happened"); $log->reconfig($config); $log->do('debug',"I'm doing things"); $log->off(); $log->do('info',"Look at me, I'm writing to stderr now"); DESCRIPTION
This module is used in sendpage(1). BUGS
I need to write more docs for it. AUTHOR
Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> SEE ALSO
perl(1), sendpage(1), Sendpage::KeesConf(3), Sendpage::Modem(3), Sendpage::PagingCentral(3), Sendpage::PageQueue(3), Sendpage::Page(3), Sendpage::Recipient(3), Sendpage::Queue(3) COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2000 Kees Cook. This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.10.0 2008-01-03 Sendpage::KeesLog(3pm)
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