On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Jethro R Binks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Nov 2008, Hans Morten Kind wrote: > > > > http://www.le.ac.uk/its/mcn4/exitop/ > > > > This is very cool, thanks for posting your understandings of perl's > > Curses. I havn't been playing with it before but by a few tweeks on your > > script I can now 'top' several logfiles to get current trends. > > I think I fell asleep today briefly and missed the original post, so > thanks to Hans' reply for catching my eye. > > I had a quick go, and yes it is certainly a handy util for getting a quick > summary of stuff going on. I very quickly saw a couple of interesting > patterns ... thanks Matthew! > > I collect my logs via syslog-ng, and apply the following template to them: > > template t_standard { > template("$R_ISODATE <$FACILITY:$PRIORITY> $SOURCEIP > $FULLHOST_FROM $MSG\n"); > > so I re-wrote syslog2exim to deal with that. If anyone wants a copy let > me know. > > A couple of things immediately strike me as useful developments: changing > of colour if one of the values goes above some threshold or other; and an > ability to press 'F' (say), and enter an pattern and 'focus' on it: so > just for lines matching that pattern, fuller details are printed in real > time like the source host, recipients, subjects, etc. This would be handy > if you see something starting to clock up (maybe a particular sender > address, or subject) to be able to instantly get a summary from within the > tool. > > Jethro. > > -- > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Jethro R Binks > Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK > > -- > ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ > Nothing useful to post other than, COOL! Very nice little tool there. ChrisZ -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
