Re: syncing logs

[koffiejunkie <koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net>]

Tony Heal wrote:
> Does anyone have a way to synchronize logs, such as determine what 
> happened in apache at (or around) the same time that the syslog has an 
> entry. Since most logs have a date/time stamp per entry I would think 
> there was something around that could do this, but I can not find it.

If the logs have the same format date/time stamp at the start of each 
line, you can do something like

cat log1 log2 | sort | less

I'm not sure what you can do if the log formats differ.

If you're troubleshooting an ongoing issue, you can do:

tail -f log1 log2 (log3 etc.)

which will show the events from all specified logs as they happen.