begin quoting Christian Seberino as of Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 07:12:21PM -0800: > > > Perl scripts to weed out the chaff and leave the important? I think many > > have been written, and you certainly could cook up your own. > > > No! I'm burned out just reading the darn Perl script outputs too! > (In my case Logwatch.) You can configure what it presents you with, yes?
So start with deciding what you want to see. How much do you want to see? How do you want it presented? I like running tail -f on selected log files, but otherwise I don't look at 'em _enough_. I also tend to run xconsole and make it "sticky" so that it shows up on all of the virtual desktop. But I think that there's probably a better way, especially with a GUI display. But what should it look like? A little like xload, with a running "log activity" measure, along with an "average dubious entry" metric? -- Time to dig out my Tufte books and contemplate visualizing this data. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
