Scott Harney wrote:
<em>>
<em>> you can log these to one central syslog server using logger(1) command
<em>> to set facility and priority of the log message. set syslog.conf on
<em>> the various machines to send log messages of that facility and priority
<em>> on to the remote central syslog server. Set the syslog server to log
<em>> messages of that facility and priority to a specific file. Rotate logs
<em>> as needed. logs will include hostname and timestamp for happy grepability
<em>> and sorting.
How nice! That's what I was looking for.
Thanks, Dustin
<em>>
<em>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 06:04:03AM +0000, Dustin Puryear wrote:
<em>> > Scott Harney wrote:
<em>> > >
<em>> > > in addition to CVS, lotsa admin types used the simpler RCS for this
as well.
<em>> > > I know that the O'Relly "Essential System Administration" has
<em>> > > details on this methodology. The "Red Book" on Unix system
administration
<em>> > > (it's purple now, actually) may have some details as well.
<em>> >
<em>> > Actually, I already use RCS when I am working with configuration files.
<em>> > I've come to the conclusion that I wanted something that did
<em>> > everything--unfortunately, it doesn't exist. Rather, I am just going to
<em>> > continue using RCS and my existing log.event script. In the near future
<em>> > I hope to create a program that will work similar to log.event, but log
<em>> > multiple hosts to one central database that I can easily review/scan. As
<em>> > of now each UNIX host has a file named /var/log/event.log (or
<em>> > /var/adm/event.log depending on the platform) that holds the logs.
<em>> >
<em>> > Regards, Dustin
<em>> >
<em>> > >
<em>> > > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 04:50:46PM +0000, Dustin Puryear wrote:
<em>> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<em>> > > >
<em>> > > > > Dustin, I am using the gnome Time Tracking Tool. It is
<em>> > > > > cheesy but documents my time and task. There is a free
<em>> > > > > web based program called Bugzilla that be more of a
<em>> > > > > trouble ticket processor than a tracking tool.
<em>> > > >
<em>> > > > We don't run have Gnome or GTK (or usually even X) installed on our
<em>> > > > servers. Plus, we run SCO OSR5 as well, which may or may not have a
Gnome
<em>> > > > port. I was hoping for a very nice console based tool. As I
mentioned in
<em>> > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I already have a script (shown below) that does
some of
<em>> > > > what I need. However, I was hoping for something that already had a
<em>> > > > built-in log query tool, and maybe would allow me to log all events
across
<em>> > > > servers to one central database. Time to start coding apparently.
<em>> > > >
<em>> > > > #!/bin/sh
<em>> > > >
<em>> > > > USERNAME=$1
<em>> > > > COMMENT=$2
<em>> > > > DATE=`date '+%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S'`
<em>> > > > FILE=/var/log/event.log
<em>> > > >
<em>> > > > if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
<em>> > > > echo "bad arguments"
<em>> > > > echo "usage: log.event username log-entry"
<em>> > > > exit
<em>> > > > fi
<em>> > > >
<em>> > > > awk -F : '{print $1}' /etc/passwd | grep --silent \^$USERNAME\$
<em>> > > > if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
<em>> > > > echo "you did not supply a proper username"
<em>> > > > exit
<em>> > > > fi
<em>> > > >
<em>> > > > echo "$DATE $USERNAME $COMMENT" >> $FILE
<em>> > > >
<em>> > > > Regards, Dustin
<em>> > > >
<em>> > > >
<em>> > > > >
<em>> > > > >
<em>> > > > > Bob
<em>> > > > > > Does anyone know of a simple to use and open source (or at
least free)
<em>> > > > > > package used to log MIS administrative work for Linux/UNIX? We
use
<em>> > > > > > notebooks to log admin work for our UNIX and NT servers, and
frankly,
<em>> > > > > > it's a pain. It would be nice to just log actions using a
command-line
<em>> > > > > > or web-based tool (preferably both).
<em>> > > > > >
<em>> > > > > > Thanks, Dustin
<em>> > > > > >
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