On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 08:36, Ed Wilts wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:05:03AM -0400, David Hart wrote:
> > Some of you display astonishing ingenuity at finding solutions to the
> > most arcane problems.
> >
> > Our RT314 log is routed to one machine and prints to "messages" with the
> > "r"option. Using a tail I can get an idea of what's going on. It would
> > really help if I could get domain name resolution.
> >
> > Before I resort to trying to write a script to parse the data, I thought
> > I would see if I might be overlooking a simpler solution.
>
> Utilities like analog have a similar problem - the logged data is
> typically in numeric form and you want a domain name. I run dnstran on
> my system which runs through the log and does the dns translations and
> caches the results for analog. dnstran runs hourly (I think) and does a
> nice job. You might be able to use a similar approach for your log
> file. In fact, if you can get the RT314 output to a separate file,
> tools like analog might be able to process it for you.
>
Thanks. Logwatch actually has a separate RT314 mod but the format is
terrible (it would be easier to start from scratch). One of these days
there will be a default format for these log files. Until then . . .
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