debian man page for syslog-summary

Query: syslog-summary

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SYSLOG-SUMMARY(1)					    Syslog-Summary User Manual						 SYSLOG-SUMMARY(1)

NAME
syslog-summary - summarize the contents of a syslog log file
SYNOPSIS
syslog-summary [-s | --state= filename] [-i | --ignore= filename] [-d | --debug] [-r | --repeat] logfile... syslog-summary [-h | --help]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the syslog-summary command. syslog-summary summarizes the contents of log files via the syslog(3) service, by displaying each unique (except for the time) line once, and also the number of times such a line occurs in the input. The lines are displayed in the order they occur in the input.
OPTIONS
-i filename, --ignore=filename Read regular expressions from filename and ignore lines in the logfiles that match them. -s filename, --state=filename Read state information from filename. The state contains information about the already reported parts of a log file, and prevents syslog-summary from reporting the same things many times. This is useful when syslog-summary is run from crontab every hour. The file is created, if it doesn't exist already. -r, --repeat Merge "last message repeated * times" lines with the repeated event. -d, --debug Enable verbose messages when errors occur (i.e. "debug mode"). -h, --help Show summary of options.
FILES
/etc/syslog-summary/ignore.rules Default ignore.rules file with default regular expressions.
DIAGNOSTICS
When reporting a bug, please run syslog-summary with the -d (or --debug) flag enabled. syslog-summary provides some return codes, that can be used in scripts: Code Diagnostic 0 Program exited successfully. 1 Something went wrong, please run the program with the debug messages enabled.
AUTHORS
Lars Wirzenius <liw@iki.fi> Wrote this manpage for the Debian system. Wrote the first version of syslog-summary. Maintained the Debian package from 1998 to 2000. Tommi Virtanen <tv@debian.org> Maintained the package from 2001 to early 2008. David Paleino <d.paleino@gmail.com> Maintains the package since early 2008.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2008 David Paleino Copyright (C) 2001-2007 Tommi Virtanen Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Lars Wirzenius This manual page was written for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL. syslog-summary 02/07/2008 SYSLOG-SUMMARY(1)
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