This is the command logtool that can be run in the OnWorks free hosting provider using one of our multiple free online workstations such as Ubuntu Online, Fedora Online, Windows online emulator or MAC OS online emulator
PROGRAM:
NAME
logtool - parse and filter syslog files
SYNOPSIS
(stdout) | logtool -[args]
Logtool is a command line program that will parse logfiles into a more palatable format.
It will take anything resembling a syslog or multilog file, as well as unformatted ASCII,
and crunch it into one of the following formats for your viewing pleasure:
ANSI (colorized for easy "at a glance" viewing)
ASCII (e-mail reports/term's w/o color)
CSV (spreadsheet/database imports)
HTML (for generating web pages)
RAW (for no good reason)
OPTIONS
-o [ ANSI | ASCII | CSV | HTML | RAW ]
Allows you to specify the output format to be one of the following: ANSI (default),
ASCII, CSV, HTML, RAW. Options are not case sensitive (ie: -o CSV and -o csv should
yield the same results)
-t [ long | short ]
Allows you to specify the time display format to be one of the following: (Long
[default]) Mon Dy HH:MM:SS or (Short) HH:MM
-b Causes logtool to beep on RED events (ANSI output only). This is usefull when you
want to monitor a logfile on an ongoing basis, and wish to have your terminal beep
whenever something out of the ordinary happens.
-s Causes logtool to not display the syslog "source" field
-p Causes logtool to not display the "program" field
-c [/path/config.file]
Allows you to specify a config file other than the default /etc/logtool/logtool.conf
-i [/path/includefile]
Allows you to specify an alterate file containing regex's for inclusion
[default=/etc/logtool/include]
-e [/path/excludefile]
Allows you to specify an alternate file containing regex's for exclusion
[default=/etc/logtool/exclude]
-n Causes logtool to skip any attempts to resolve IP->Hostname by the various modules
(handy when your DNS is down temporairly).
-v Set logtool to operate in verbose mode (does nothing currently)
-V Causes logtool to print it's version information and exit
-h Display the help message
SUGGESTED USAGE(S)
As a 'live' logfile monitoring tool:
tail -f /var/log/messages | logtool -o ANSI -b
To generate colorized webpages of logfiles:
cat /var/log/messages | logtool -o HTML > /home/httpd/html/logs/messages.html
To generate reports via a cronjob:
retail /var/log/messages | logtool -o ASCII | mail -s "Daily report"
someuser@somedomain.ext
CONFIG FILE
/etc/logtool/logtool.conf
The config file should be commented to the point of being self-documenting, so we will not
comment very extensively on it here. Suffice to say, this is the place where you should
configure 99% of your runtime options for logtool. You may also have a collection of
different default configurations, and select amongst them by the '-c' option of logtool.
AVAILABILITY
Logtool is known to compile/run on all UNIX flavors using a 2.95.x GNU C Compiler, the GNU
Make utility, and a proper ANSI C library (glibc is recommended, but not required).
Specific reports of success include FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, SCO, and of
course, any known flavor of Linux (including at least 2 embedded system variants).
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