Grep, sort, uniq, awk, sed are all worthy tools, but part of the job is deciding when one tool, or tool-set is no longer enough to accomplish your mission. When should you turn over the job to a true sorting engine, a relational database?
Log Analysis, why not grep? Saturday, January 14, 2006
So you say you dislike gallery yappa gallery-program-13? Tuesday, January 03, 2006
I dislike gallery programs as well, why I have no idea. I think I wanted to write my own sometime in the past. I may still do that in the future… something with a nice web-form to upload images, user privileges and comment capability… sometime, when I have time and don’t have other obligations.
Quick Log Parsing router access-list logs Monday, January 02, 2006
A few quick ways to use normal unix command-line tools to parse logs for classification of problems or identification of activity. The aim of this would be to help folks find out what is causing a problem on a particular interface, not long term analysis which should be covered somewhere else. Part of it is covered in this package available on SourceForge.Net.
