NAME

       logtool - parse and filter syslog files

SYNOPSIS

       (stdout) | logtool -[args]

       Logtool  is  a  command line program that will parse logfiles into a more palatable format.  It will take
       anything resembling a syslog or multilog file, as well as unformatted ASCII, and crunch it  into  one  of
       the following formats for your viewing pleasure:

            ANSI (colorized for easy "at a glance" viewing)

            ASCII (e-mail reports/term's w/o color)

            CSV (spreadsheet/database imports)

            HTML (for generating web pages)

            RAW (for no good reason)

OPTIONS

       -o [ ANSI | ASCII | CSV | HTML | RAW ]
            Allows  you  to  specify  the  output format to be one of the following: ANSI (default), ASCII, CSV,
            HTML, RAW.  Options are not case sensitive (ie: -o CSV and -o csv should yield the same results)

       -t [ long | short ]
            Allows you to specify the time display format to be one of the following: (Long  [default])  Mon  Dy
            HH:MM:SS or (Short) HH:MM

       -b   Causes logtool to beep on RED events (ANSI output only).  This is usefull when you want to monitor a
            logfile on an ongoing basis, and wish to have your terminal  beep  whenever  something  out  of  the
            ordinary happens.

       -s   Causes logtool to not display the syslog "source" field

       -p   Causes logtool to not display the "program" field

       -c [/path/config.file]
            Allows you to specify a config file other than the default /etc/logtool/logtool.conf

       -i [/path/includefile]
            Allows    you    to    specify    an    alterate    file    containing    regex's    for   inclusion
            [default=/etc/logtool/include]

       -e [/path/excludefile]
            Allows   you   to    specify    an    alternate    file    containing    regex's    for    exclusion
            [default=/etc/logtool/exclude]

       -n   Causes  logtool to skip any attempts to resolve IP->Hostname by the various modules (handy when your
            DNS is down temporairly).

       -v   Set logtool to operate in verbose mode (does nothing currently)

       -V   Causes logtool to print it's version information and exit

       -h   Display the help message

SUGGESTED USAGE(S)

       As a 'live' logfile monitoring tool:
              tail -f /var/log/messages | logtool -o ANSI -b

       To generate colorized webpages of logfiles:
              cat /var/log/messages | logtool -o HTML > /home/httpd/html/logs/messages.html

       To generate reports via a cronjob:
              retail /var/log/messages | logtool -o ASCII | mail -s "Daily report" someuser@somedomain.ext

CONFIG FILE

       /etc/logtool/logtool.conf

       The config file should be commented to the point of being self-documenting, so we will not  comment  very
       extensively on it here.  Suffice to say, this is the place where you should configure 99% of your runtime
       options for logtool.  You may also  have a collection of different  default  configurations,  and  select
       amongst them by the '-c' option of logtool.

AVAILABILITY

       Logtool  is known to compile/run on all UNIX flavors using a 2.95.x GNU C Compiler, the GNU Make utility,
       and a proper ANSI C library (glibc is recommended,  but  not  required).   Specific  reports  of  success
       include  FreeBSD,  OpenBSD, Solaris, SunOS, AIX, SCO, and of course, any known flavor of Linux (including
       at least 2 embedded system variants).

SEE ALSO

       regex(7) for help with constructing regular expressions for the  include/exclude/colors  files.   If  you
       find  no  regex manual on your system, try 'apropos regex' and see what you get, or as a last ditch, 'man
       grep' should at least point you in the right direction.

       You can also find a somewhat better bit of documentation in the textfile 'logtool.txt'  (usually  in  the
       /usr/doc/,  /usr/share/doc/  or  similar  tree  on most Linux distributions).  If you don't know where to
       look, you can probably find it by typing 'locate logtool.txt' at the command line.

AUTHOR

       A.L.Lambert <al@xjack.org>

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