Re: Log tools?

[zeus () TETRONSOFTWARE COM (Gene Harris)]

I like Xlogmaster, that ships in the FreeBSD ports
collection.

HTH

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, James Phillips wrote:

>  On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Chad Day wrote:
>
>  ->Can anyone recommend me a good logging tool for *nix to monitor logs?  I've
>  ->flipped through some tools at securityfocus, but haven't really found
>  ->anything I'm thrilled with.. is there a common one that most people are
>  ->using?
>  ->
>  ->Thanks,
>  ->Chad
>  ->
>  I really like Craig Rowland's logcheck package. It's available at
>  http://www.psionic.com/abacus/logcheck/ , it's opensource, and highly
>  configurable, I wrote a little article about using it:
>  http://deadly.org/index_new.php3?id=9&item=9 , but it's pretty easy to
>  figure out. On linux, I also like to use logwatch by Kirk Bauer
>  http://www.kaybee.org/~kirk/html/linux.html . It's not as comprehensive as
>  logcheck, but it's a no-brainer to install on Linux (rpm systems).
>
>  hope that helps,
>  --
>       james r phillips        OpenBSD diary   http://www.deadly.org