Re: syncing logs
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On 07/26/07 05:19, koffiejunkie wrote:
> 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.
Perl/Python and a SMOP can convert the timestamps.
> 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.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
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