changes to be made in epylog
by Micha vor dem Berge
Hi there,
I'm new to epylog and am struggling with some things right now.
To be honest, I'm not sure which of the changes I made to epylog (on my
system) are useful to be made globally. There are two things we should
think about:
1. Is it right that epylog was originally wrote to run on various BSD
systems? If yes, this means: The default paths/regex-patterns are fitted
to those systems.
2. Epylog is 4 or 5 years old... just like the regex-patters. I think,
some of the usual log outputs changed meanwhile.
So, should we change all the default search-paths for the modules to fit
a modern linux system (let's say a debian lenny ;) )? And should we
likewise change the regex-patterns to work properly on such a system?
Just to give you an idea: the logins-module on debian lenny needs to
search in
files
= /var/log/mail.log[.#], /var/log/syslog[.#], /var/log/auth.log[.#]
the 'original' epylog searches in
files = /var/log/messages[.#], /var/log/secure[.#]
which is completely different.
Suggestions?
Regards,
Micha vor dem Berge
14 years, 7 months
Re: [Epylog] Epylog changes
by Martin Bourque
I'm using RHEL 4 and 5 on all our servers and no changes required. Works
great with some tweaking of the weed file. You're correct, it's pretty old
and not many changes have been made. Sounds like we are doing the same
thing but my changes are necessarily geared more toward our OS.
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:17:36 +0200
> From: Micha vor dem Berge <m(a)mcvdb.de>
> Subject: [Epylog] changes to be made in epylog
> To: epylog(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
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> Hi there,
>
> I'm new to epylog and am struggling with some things right now.
>
> To be honest, I'm not sure which of the changes I made to epylog (on my
> system) are useful to be made globally. There are two things we should
> think about:
>
> 1. Is it right that epylog was originally wrote to run on various BSD
> systems? If yes, this means: The default paths/regex-patterns are fitted
> to those systems.
>
> 2. Epylog is 4 or 5 years old... just like the regex-patters. I think,
> some of the usual log outputs changed meanwhile.
>
> So, should we change all the default search-paths for the modules to fit
> a modern linux system (let's say a debian lenny ;) )? And should we
> likewise change the regex-patterns to work properly on such a system?
>
>
> Just to give you an idea: the logins-module on debian lenny needs to
> search in
> files
> = /var/log/mail.log[.#], /var/log/syslog[.#], /var/log/auth.log[.#]
>
> the 'original' epylog searches in
> files = /var/log/messages[.#], /var/log/secure[.#]
> which is completely different.
>
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Micha vor dem Berge
>
>
>
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14 years, 7 months