I had this idea... > in my free time (in a month? :-) I want to start working on a log > reviewing tool for cyclog. right now it's very inconveniant to run less on > a random logfile, since the filename changes once in a while, plus the > time stamps are not human readable. an interface to read the right log > automatically, in human time and the right time zone, plus coloring and > possibly jumping fixed time gaps automatically, including across log files > (one minute, one hour, etc). the way the cyclog directories are organized > will let such a tool guess automatically what logs exist on the system to > begin with and offer them to the user in a menu etc., etc. anyone already working on this? can we collaborate and split the work? anyone got more feature ideas or things he'd like to implement there? I have a feeling that with a good audit review tool and with Mate's excellent inetd-replacement system to tcpserver, we could push cycslog to take the command from syslogd for most system functions if not all, hopefully to make it a standard on one of the Linux distributions as a beginning.
