Epylog is a syslog analyser and report-writer

Hunter Matthews | 8 Jul 2009 18:13

Re: Is Epylog Still Active?

I've written a patch to allow the local weed and local notices to span  
multiple files. I liked the ability to group things by system or daemon.

If anyone is interested in those patches, I'll post them to the list.

On Jul 8, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Adam Cozzette wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 08:12:54AM -0400, Chris Geddings wrote:
>> https://fedorahosted.org/epylog/
>>
>> I think that's the current home. I don't know how actively
>> it is being developed currently, but I know it is still in use
>> in a few places.  I know the developer had gotten busy
>> in his personal life a while back, but I'm not sure what
>> his overall plans are for the project.
>>
>> At some point, the code was largely doing what most
>> (never all, right?) of the user base wanted, so heavy
>> development wasn't really seen as needed.  That may
>> or may not have changed by now.
>>
>> --Chris
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> Thanks for the reply. I had seen that epylog website and it looked  
> like
> there wasn't much activity although there had been a little bit of
> progress toward a new release. I guess I may want to look into finding
> another log analyzer that's being developed more actively.

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Paul Stauffer | 8 Jul 2009 19:49

Re: Is Epylog Still Active?

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 11:13:53AM -0500, Hunter Matthews wrote:
> I've written a patch to allow the local weed and local notices to span 
> multiple files. I liked the ability to group things by system or daemon.
>
> If anyone is interested in those patches, I'll post them to the list.

Sounds cool.  Please do post them.  Best way to avoid project stagnation is
active community contributions.

FWIW, we use epylog quite extensively in our department.  It's been a
wonderful tool for our sysadmin team to keep tabs on everything going on
with our machines.  I have also wondered about what future development plans
there may be for it, but as previously mentioned, it already works pretty
darn well, so there's not too much I'd really expect to see changed or
added.  About the only maintenance we ever do on it is to add new regexs to
weed_local.cf when software updates introduce new message formats, and
occasionally write new entries for notice_local.xml.

Thanks to all contributors for a great tool.

cheers,
- Paul

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Paul Stauffer <paulds <at> bu.edu>
Manager of Systems Administration
Computer Science Department
Boston University