Re: (no subject)

[Devdas Bhagat <devdas () dvb homelinux org>]

On 23/03/04 08:42 +0000, Hilal Hussein wrote:
> Dear List,
>
> i have cisco pix firewall that is sending it log data to a cisco syslog 
> server (windowsxp workstation).
Why not use a Linux/Unix syslog box?

> it is working fine with me since it is a service, so i willl be sure that it 
> is running whenever the server is up and running.
>
> But i have two questions concerning this syslog:
> 1 - the log files are too big since everyfile contains the whole day logs, 
> and since the file size is about 400 + Mb, i am not able to open it. kindly, 
> is there any third party utility which i can use to manage (open, check, 
> filter, ....) the log files of the cisco syslog?
400 MB of data is not all that much for a dedicated Syslog server to
handle.
Repeat after me, Perl is your friend.
(If not Perl, choose your flavour of scripting language).

Devdas Bhagat
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