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Quote:> Hello, I need to setup a log server.  This in itself is no problem,
but if I
> have several different systems
> logging to one system and one logfile it makes it kind of hard to scan
> through.
> On the log server, there is the syslog file which contains several
different
> systems logs.
> I'm trying to get something like:
> syslog_system1
> syslog_system2
> syslog_system3
> etc...
> Does anyone know of a utility or script that could perform this for
me?
> Or is there something in syslog.conf I can do?

something like
for i in list-of-hostnames ; do
  grep $i syslog > syslog_$i
done

Although you might want to be a little more creative to avoid
references to a hostname within a log message (as opposed to at its
start immediately after the timestamp) triggering it too.

Of course if you wanted to be more elegant you could use perl, hash up
references to filehandles based on hostnames and open them for
appending on the first log entry from that host, doing all of your
separate logfiles in a single pass, you could make it do sensible
things with command-line params to let you be even more selective etc
etc etc...

Dave.

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Quote:> Hello, I need to setup a log server.  This in itself is no problem, but if
I
> have several different systems
> logging to one system and one logfile it makes it kind of hard to scan
> through.
> On the log server, there is the syslog file which contains several
different
> systems logs.
> I'm trying to get something like:
> syslog_system1
> syslog_system2
> syslog_system3
> etc...
> Does anyone know of a utility or script that could perform this for me?
> Or is there something in syslog.conf I can do?
> Thanks very much!
> Don