some of the log files are huge and full of lots of good information - I have only been able to view them in a text format - is there a better way like a log analisis programme ???
Hi, I am working with an Astaro user to get your logs read into Sawmill.
I really need to know if the Astaro Security Firewall creates it's own logs or it uses a syslog to create them. Once I know how the device logs I can add support to Sawmill for all.
Version 5 uses syslog as the central log handling facility. Every log file besides wtmp and lastlog is written by the syslog daemon. The contents, however, are only in part similar to the "standard" linux log files. For example, there is no "messages" and no "daemon" log file any more. The log data is spread into many specialized log files based on the process sending it and the data it contains.
To get back to the original post: Basically, you can view the log files with notepad, but notepad only supports a very limited file size (was it 64k? Not sure any more...). Wordpad is an alternative option, but you should rather use a more advanced editor like UltraEdit or Textpad.
Version 5 uses syslog as the central log handling facility. Every log file besides wtmp and lastlog is written by the syslog daemon. The contents, however, are only in part similar to the "standard" linux log files. For example, there is no "messages" and no "daemon" log file any more. The log data is spread into many specialized log files based on the process sending it and the data it contains.
To get back to the original post: Basically, you can view the log files with notepad, but notepad only supports a very limited file size (was it 64k? Not sure any more...). Wordpad is an alternative option, but you should rather use a more advanced editor like UltraEdit or Textpad.
