Package: syslog-summary Version: 1.12 When syslog-summary is run on a syslog file it nukes the dates and PIDs from the log entries, as in the following example:
Raw log fragment: Oct 11 07:36:48 nestie syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart. Oct 11 07:36:48 nestie anacron[16978]: Job `cron.daily' terminated (exit status: 1) (mailing output) Oct 11 07:37:04 nestie identd[17356]: started Oct 11 07:37:04 nestie anacron[16978]: Normal exit (1 jobs run) Oct 11 07:38:02 nestie /USR/SBIN/CRON[17384]: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) Oct 11 07:39:01 nestie /USR/SBIN/CRON[17402]: (pigeon) CMD (ping -c 4 195.40.1.36 > /dev/null 2>&1 || ssh stunted 'touch /tmp/pingdontwork'^I) Oct 11 07:40:01 nestie /USR/SBIN/CRON[17417]: (pigeon) CMD (/home/pigeon/bin/fprcpics 2>/dev/null) Oct 11 07:45:01 nestie /USR/SBIN/CRON[17504]: (root) CMD (/root/bin/update-resolv.conf) Oct 11 07:50:01 nestie /USR/SBIN/CRON[17570]: (pigeon) CMD (/home/pigeon/bin/fprcpics 2>/dev/null) Oct 11 07:51:54 nestie dhttpd[17621]: Request from 70.34.169.178: GET /pigeons_nest_website_images/quantum-weirdness.png HTTP/1.1 Oct 11 07:51:54 nestie dhttpd[17621]: File: /var/www/pigeons_nest_website_images/quantum-weirdness.png Oct 11 07:51:54 nestie dhttpd[17621]: Status: 0 (OK) Oct 11 07:51:54 nestie dhttpd[17621]: Referer: http://pigeon.dyndns.org/stuff/macroscopic-quantum-phenomena.html Oct 11 07:51:54 nestie dhttpd[17621]: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) After processing through syslog-summary: Summarizing syslog 0 Lines skipped (already processed) 0 Patterns to ignore 0 Ignored lines 1 nestie syslogd 1.4.1#10: restart. 1 nestie anacron: Job `cron.daily' terminated (exit status: 1) (mailing output) 1 nestie identd: started 1 nestie anacron: Normal exit (1 jobs run) 1 nestie /USR/SBIN/CRON: (mail) CMD ( if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim/exim.conf ]; then /usr/sbin/exim -q ; fi) 1 nestie /USR/SBIN/CRON: (pigeon) CMD (ping -c 4 195.40.1.36 > /dev/null 2>&1 || ssh stunted 'touch /tmp/pingdontwork'^I) 2 nestie /USR/SBIN/CRON: (pigeon) CMD (/home/pigeon/bin/fprcpics 2>/dev/null) 1 nestie /USR/SBIN/CRON: (root) CMD (/root/bin/update-resolv.conf) 1 nestie dhttpd: Request from 70.34.169.178: GET /pigeons_nest_website_images/quantum-weirdness.png HTTP/1.1 1 nestie dhttpd: File: /var/www/pigeons_nest_website_images/quantum-weirdness.png 1 nestie dhttpd: Status: 0 (OK) 1 nestie dhttpd: Referer: http://pigeon.dyndns.org/stuff/macroscopic-quantum-phenomena.html 1 nestie dhttpd: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727) This behaviour makes analysis of the log file a somewhat futile process. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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