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- tidy - Tidy up log file(s) created by syslogd and do statistics on it
-
- Version: 1.0 / Release Date March 12, 1996
- Patchlevel 1 / March 14, 1996
-
- Tidy cleans up the log file(s) created by the syslogd daemon. For a system
- operator it is a bothersome job to sort out the interesting (sometimes
- alarming) entries from a pile of standard entries. Tidy distinguishes
- different services (telnet, finger, etc.) and removes standard entries.
- Furthermore tidy tries to extract a remote host from the messages. These
- remote hosts are added to a statistics database. The number of contacts
- of each service is saved together with the time/date stamp of the last
- contact. The statistics can be printed out as simple ASCII or HTML.
-
- REQUIREMENTS
- ------------
- Tidy requires the perl script language interpreter, version 5. It
- definitely won't run on V4 pl36 or lower!
-
- You must have syslogd running on your system. There is a little tool
- (install-test) that does some simple checks to see whether syslogd is
- present on your system. If you don't have syslogd, you'll have to get
- the source by FTP and install it yourself. You may then have to edit
- syslog.conf in order to tell syslogd to log messages from the `mail'
- facility to a file. Tidy will process this file. Refer to the man pages
- syslogd(8) and syslog.conf(5).
-
- Installation
- ------------
- See the INSTALL file.
-
- Features
- --------
- If your system is on the Internet, there is a number of services that
- are offered by your host, e.g. telnet, rlogin, rsh, finger, talk, ftp
- and last but not least mail. If your system logger syslogd is set up
- correctly, every contact from remote hosts via this services is logged
- to a file, referred to as the `log file' in this description.
-
- Tidy goes through the log file line by line and eliminates entries that are
- `unsuspicious' and adds the remote hosts contained in there to a statistics
- file. The action of tidy is controlled by the configuration file tidy.conf.
- By default tidy recognizes the services mentioned above, further services
- can be added easily.
-
- The statistics are printed in ASCII or HTML format with the following options:
- - Print time and/or date of last contact in short or long format
- below or besides the number of contacts.
- - Print ruler and/or header lines to enhance readability.
- - Sort output by host name, by domains or by number of connections of
- a certain service. Alphabetical sorting case sensitive/insensitive.
- - Production of different statistics outputs using multiple configuration
- files.
-
- Bug reports and suggestions are welcome!
-
- SITES
- =====
- Tidy is maintained at tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/tidy-1.0.tar.gz
-
- Latest version available from "ftp://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/tidy"
- See also "http://saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de/~marek/tidy", the official
- tidy Home page.
-
- Author: Marek Rouchal, University of Bayreuth, Germany
- (marek@saftsack.fs.uni-bayreuth.de)
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