Bug#670875: ITP: logsurfer -- Monitoring system logs in real-time
Am 01.05.2012 um 06:42 schrieb Salvatore Bonaccorso:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 03:13:31PM +0200, Thilo Uttendorfer wrote:
>> Am 30.04.2012 um 11:21 schrieb martin f krafft:
>>> also sprach Thilo Uttendorfer <debian@uttendorfer.net> [2012.04.29.2306 +0200]:
>>>> * Package name : logsurfer
>>>> Version : 1.8
>>>> Upstream Author : Kerry Thompson <kerry@crypt.gen.nz>
>>>> * URL : http://www.crypt.gen.nz/logsurfer/
>>>> * License : BSD
>>>> Programming Lang: C
>>>> Description : Monitoring system logs in real-time
>>>>
>>>> Logsurfer is a program for monitoring system logs in real-time, and reporting
>>>> on the occurrence of events.
>>>
>>> Is this a logcheck replacement?
>>
>> Although it probably could replace logcheck, I would not recommend it to
>> use it that way because the syntax is much more complex.
>>
>> But it has some advantages compared to logcheck:
>> - monitoring of log files in real-time
>> - grouping of related log entries ("contexts")
>> - trigger any action, executing programs with the current context
>> (of course the most common case is sending mail)
>
> This is great to see. I was to ITP this too this, or at least ask for
> RFP, after reading an article in logsurfer.
>
> From webpage furthermore: It is similar to 'swatch', which is already
> in the archive.
>
> Thilo, do you know what logsurfer has as features in advance to
> swatch?
I never used swatch, but I suppose the "context"-feature is exclusive to
logsurfer. In addition it is written in C and the author thinks it is much more
efficient then swatch which is written in Perl.
By the way, the package is on mentors.debian.net:
http://mentors.debian.net/package/logsurfer
Thilo
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