Le 19/10/2010 11:41, Dom Latter a écrit :
Helo, as one might say.
Wading through logfiles to find a particular email has been
taking up too much of my time recently [1].
I have written a logfile condenser that takes a postfix log and
generates a single line per email, with (for example) timestamp,
ham /spam, sender, recipient, spam score, size.
Thus, for example, a 25000 line logfile (about 4MB) is condensed
into 800 lines; grepping for " ham " pulls out 200 lines of
actual delivered emails. It's reasonably fast (less than a second
to do the condensing on a modern-ish box).
I wrote my own because none of the existing logfile tools did
quite what I want. The closest seemed to be this:
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/lucid/man1/postfix2dlf.1.html
The question is - is there any community interest in this tool?
As something hacked up for my own purposes it is most definitely
beta code. But if there's interest I could tidy it up and
release it.
It will probably upset the purists for two reasons: it's written
in PHP [1] because that was going to be quickest for me; and it doesn't
use regexps, but rather a lot of substr()s to get the information
out.
If there's something better out there, please say.
[0] From the example stats - that's more than 100 lines of logfile
per "actual" email.
[1] It's still a command line tool.
what I'd like to see is "requirements/needs". that is: what do people need?
once we get that, the implementation is trivial.
