Re: How to read log files

[Mike McClain <mike.junk@nethere.com>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:00:18PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 
> That was quite what I asked: where could I read more on the subject?
> Dead trees are fine!
> 
Hi Dotan,
    These are trivial but handy for chasing down where messages come from:

etcgrep () { grep -ir "$1" /etc/* ; }
sgrep () { grep -ir "$1" /usr/src/linux ; }
xgrep () { grep -i "$1" $(echo $PATH | tr ":" " ") ; }

HTH,
Mike
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