I have a script that checks a log file. This will be checked periodically lets say every 5 minutes. I need to get new entries and process these new entries
What do you think is the best strategy here? all i can think of currently is to backup the old file and do
. But future problem will be once the log increases in size, this method will be slower.
I know that Unix is different from windows in that it needs more manual configuring but how do I get Solaris 8 (Intel version) to recognize my floppy drive and cd-rom??
I mean does it automatically detect the drives at startup and I have to mount them or do I have to create the drives somehow and... (1 Reply)
Hello all,
first of all, I apologise if I may ask stupid or obvious questions, but I'm new to UNIX and I think I need a little bit of help before I start gearing up :)
Anyway, I have installed a Solaris 8 on a Sun machine, and it has 2 physical disks in it. However, it seems that it is only... (7 Replies)
Hi. You may know how to detect when a interruption succeeded programming in C. Just like receiving a signal without blocking. Knowing when it was a keystroke (IRQ 2), or a mouse movement (12), or a disk access, etc. and getting actually for example the letter typed.
Thanks a lot. (7 Replies)
Hello,
I'd like to handle incoming (uploaded) files from a shell script, ideally without busy polling / waiting (e.g. running a cron task every 15'). Is there a command that would just sleep until a new entry has been created in a directory, allowing scripts such as the following:
while... (9 Replies)
Hi All ,
I need a script to find errors in a particular and in a particular path
Actually in my logs i`ve so many kinds of errors(i can even say as 100 types also).if i run the script i need to know the error (some errors can aviod )
so finally the script o/p should be a numeric... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I will name folders this way : DD-MM-YYYY (07-06-2011 for today).
DATE=`date +%d-%m-%Y`
mkdir $DATE
They will contain a backup of the day.
I want, in my backup script, add a command that will automatically delete folders that are a week old (in this case, when performing the backup of... (7 Replies)
How can view log messages between two time frame from /var/log/message or any type of log files.
when logfiles are very big and especially many messages with in few minutes, I would like to display log messages between 5 minute interval.
Could you pls give me the command? (1 Reply)
Hello world,
One of the servers, a Fedora one,rebooted today (Luckily, a testbox).
I tried to get the reason the server rebooted. After going through the messages, I think that the log entries just before and after reboot are missing.
Please below: (****** is the server name, for privacy... (0 Replies)
is there a way to efficiently monitor logfiles that do not have a date or time format? i have several logs on several different servers that need to be monitored. but i realized writing a script for this would be very complex and time consuming giving the variety of things i need to check for i.e.... (2 Replies)
Redirecting log files to null writing junk into log files.
i have log files which created from below command
exec <processname> >$logfile
but when it reaches some size i am redirecting to null while process is running like
>$logfile
manually but after that it writes some junk into... (7 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
clfmerge
clfmerge(1) logtools clfmerge(1)NAME
clfmerge - merge Common-Log Format web logs based on time-stamps
SYNOPSIS
clfmerge [--help | -h] [-b size] [-d] [file names]
DESCRIPTION
The clfmerge program is designed to avoid using sort to merge multiple web log files. Web logs for big sites consist of multiple files in
the >100M size range from a number of machines. For such files it is not practical to use a program such as gnusort to merge the files
because the data is not always entirely in order (so the merge option of gnusort doesn't work so well), but it is not in random order (so
doing a complete sort would be a waste). Also the date field that is being sorted on is not particularly easy to specify for gnusort (I
have seen it done but it was messy).
This program is designed to simply and quickly sort multiple large log files with no need for temporary storage space or overly large buf-
fers in memory (the memory footprint is generally only a few megs).
OVERVIEW
It will take a number (from 0 to n) of file-names on the command line, it will open them for reading and read CLF format web log data from
them all. Lines which don't appear to be in CLF format (NB they aren't parsed fully, only minimal parsing to determine the date is per-
formed) will be rejected and displayed on standard-error.
If zero files are specified then there will be no error, it will just silently output nothing, this is for scripts which use the find com-
mand to find log files and which can't be counted on to find any log files, it saves doing an extra check in your shell scripts.
If one file is specified then the data will be read into a 1000 line buffer and it will be removed from the buffer (and displayed on stan-
dard output) in date order. This is to handle the case of web servers which date entries on the connection time but write them to the log
at completion time and thus generate log files that aren't in order (Netscape web server does this - I haven't checked what other web
servers do).
If more than one file is specified then a line will be read from each file, the file that had the earliest time stamp will be read from
until it returns a time stamp later than one of the other files. Then the file with the earlier time stamp will be read. With multiple
files the buffer size is 1000 lines or 100 * the number of files (whichever is larger). When the buffer becomes full the first line will
be removed and displayed on standard output.
OPTIONS -b buffer-size
Specify the buffer-size to use, if 0 is specified then it means to disable the sliding-window sorting of the data which improves the
speed.
-d Set domain-name mangling to on. This means that if a line starts with as the name of the site that was requested then that would be
removed from the start of the line and the GET / would be changed to GET http://www.company.com/ which allows programs like Webal-
izer to produce good graphs for large hosting sites. Also it will make the domain name in lower case.
EXIT STATUS
0 No errors
1 Bad parameters
2 Can't open one of the specified files
3 Can't write to output
AUTHOR
This program, its manual page, and the Debian package were written by Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>.
SEE ALSO clfsplit(1),clfdomainsplit(1)Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> 0.06 clfmerge(1)