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Re: best log checker



Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

> I'm trying to find a good log checker.
> 
> Basically, I want it to report anything that I don't tell it to ignore.
> 
> I've tried logcheck first and when I couldn't get it to do what I want I
> tried logwatch.  It has an ignore file that it says to just cut and
> paste what you want to ignore.  I do that and it doesn't ignore it.
> Some docs mention that its all based on regular expressions so I tried
> enclosing the lines in quotes to no avial.
> 
> I do neither perl nor RE: they're both too cryptic.  I guess I'll never
> be a true *N*X weenie.

regexp's are much easier to learn quickly with kregexpeditor.




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