On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 01:40:27PM -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: > It really feels like this discussion is beyond its peak usefulness. > > Maybe we can give another shot of relevance by collecting a list of > packages that depend on syslog (or are useless without /var/log/messages > or other log files in /var/log) ? > > I've heard logwatch, logrotate and fail2ban mentioned. Are there > others ?
Based on looking at http://codesearch.debian.net/, with both /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog (debian's default), I come with a handful. logcheck. Matthias Runge was maintaining this fairly actively about 2.5 years ago and then kind of trailed off. This is a shell script. pcp (Performance Co-Pilot). Haven't really investigated. nova-manage (from openstack) has an awful script to extract log info from log files (tries /var/log/syslog, then falls back to /var/log/messages). This would actually be significantly nicer using journalctl. lvmdump, which makes a tarball of lvm diagnostic reports. Currently includes "recent entries from /var/log/messages". hplip (HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project) - includes a helper script called "logcapture" intended to search log files for printer messages for diagnostic purposes. This looks in /var/log/syslog, /var/log/messages, and /var/log/cups/error_log. There's also epylog (maybe not in debian?) And really not much else other than documentation and examples -- which like as not _already_ aren't applicable. For example, the sudo man page references /var/log/syslog, as does the logfilter example in the rsync documentation. -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mat...@fedoraproject.org> -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
