I can think of 2 programs you'd be interested. 1. WinMerge http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/ for comparing logs (although it'll do what you're asking - I'm not sure you're asking the right question because all the logs will be different as the timestamps are different). 2. Sawmill - a fantastic log analyzer tool. It'll examine most any type of logs and give you reports - kind of like webalyzer. sawmill.net
Again - since all the timestamps will be different between the logs you're comparing, I'm not sure this will be the best route. Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Cook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 4:49 PM Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] OT: Change Log > I am looking for a way to audit some of my log files. The log files I'm > looking at auditing are system audit logs. (NMAP for example.) The log has > a lot of info, and reading it each week would be a waist of time. However > if I had a way to create a log file of what changed from the last log file > it would be an easy tool to use and be able to get useful info out of it. I > use a number of tools to create these audit files, but I would spend all > week looking at them to see what changed. > > Do any of you do something like this? Any suggestions on software to > compare these files and give me a useful output. Open source or freeware > would be best, but commercial software is ok. It would be important to be > able to automate this process. I really would like to on Monday morning > just open a folder of this audit change log files and see what changed last > week. Then I can assign tasks based off this info. > > Thank You > > Jeff Cook > Network Administrator > Whatcom Educational Credit Union > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
