NAME

       lr_run - run a Lire program and deal with the logging output

SYNOPSIS

       lr_run program arguments

DESCRIPTION

       lr_run runs program, and redirects program's stderr output to logger(1). It parses
       programs logging output, and sets logger(1)'s flags accordingly.

       lr_run gets configuration from sysconfdir/lire/defaults. In case 'lr_logging_method' is
       set to 'stderr', logger(1) is not involved: logging output gets redirected to stderr. In
       case 'lr_debug' is set to the empty string, messages with loglevel debug and info get
       suppressed. The configuration variable 'lr_logging_facility' is used to find logger(1)'s
       facility.

NOTES

       program's output on stderr should be in format superservice service id programname level
       message. level should be one of: emerg (system is unusable), alert (action must be taken
       immediately), crit (critical conditions), err (error conditions), warning (warning
       conditions), notice (normal, but significant, condition), info (informational message),
       debug (debug-level message). See syslog(3).

       id can be used to tag each Lire job, so that these can get tracked.  programname should be
       the name of the program which generated the log line.

EXAMPLES

       To process a Postfix log and display the report as text, use

        $ lr_run lr_log2report postfix < /var/log/mail.log

       To process a Postfix log and create the report in HTML (packed up in a tar archive), use:

        $ lr_run lr_log2report -o html postfix < /var/log/mail.log > postfix.tar

SEE ALSO

       Documentation in the Lire User Manual

VERSION

       $Id: lr_run.in,v 1.23 2006/07/23 13:16:33 vanbaal Exp $

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2000-2003 Stichting LogReport Foundation LogReport@LogReport.org

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
       version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program
       (see COPYING); if not, check with http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html.

THANKS

       Rudi Sluijtman, for sharing some thoughts on shell scripting.

AUTHOR

       Joost van Baal <joostvb@logreport.org>