Ubuntu Manpage: ccze - A robust log colorizer

NAME

       ccze - A robust log colorizer

SYNOPSIS

       ccze [options] <logfile

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual  page  documents briefly the ccze utility, which is a drop-in replacement for
       colorize, but written in C, to be faster and less resource-hungry.  The  goal  was  to  be
       fully backwards compatible, yet superior with respect to speed and features.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with
two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-a, --argument PLUGIN=ARGUMENTS
Use this option to pass ARGUMENTS to the specified PLUGIN. The argument list is
whitespace separated.

-A, --raw-ansi
If one wants to enable raw ANSI color sequences instead of using curses, this
option does just that.

-c, --color KEY=COLOR
Set the color of the keyword KEY to COLOR, like one would do in one of the
configuration files.

-C, --convert-date
Convert unix timestamp to readable date format (in oops and squid logs, for
example).

-F, --rcfile rcfile
Read rcfile as a configuration file upon startup, instead of the default ones.

-h, --html
Instead of colorising the input onto the console, output it in HTML format instead.

-l, --list-plugins
List all available (loaded) plugins, along with their type and a short description.

-m, --mode mode
Change the output mode. Available modes are curses, ansi and html.

-o, --options OPTIONS...
CCZE is able to toggle some of its features with this option. You can toggle the
scroll, wordcolor, lookups, and transparent features, or you can fiddle with
cssfile. All of these are enabled by default, except cssfile. One can turn them off
by prefixing the option with a "no".

With scroll, one can enable or disable scrolling. If the output is not redirected,
it is wise to leave it enabled.

The wordcolor option makes ccze search for different keywords in unparsed input,
and color those too. Since it is quite fast, and makes the output look better, it
is recommended to leave this enabled.

However, lookups is an option that might be better to disable. When on, ccze will
try to look up usernames, service names, and lots of other stuff, which will slow
down coloring a great deal. If one is piping a long log through ccze, this option
might be turned off to speed up the process.

With the transparent option, one can make CCZE treat black background colors as
transparent - that means, a black background will appear transparent in a similar X
terminal. If turned off, it will appear as black.

If cssfile is set, then CCZE will not inline the Cascading Style Sheet information
into the outputted HTML, but include a link to the external stylesheet given in
this parameter.

-p, --plugin PLUGIN
While the default action is to load all plugins (see the Plugins section below),
when this option is present, only the specified plugins will be loaded. If one
knows what kind of log will be piped through ccze, using this option may result in
a slight speedup.

-r, --remove-facility
Syslog-ng puts the facility level before log messages. With this switch, these can
be cut off.

--help Show summary of options and exit.

-V, --version
Show version of program.

PLUGINS

       Different  programs  have  different  kind of logs, and every kind of log ccze supports is
       implemented via a plug-in. They are by default located under /usr/lib/ccze and $HOME/.ccze
       (so they can be overridden by the user easily).

       At the moment, the following modules are bundled with the official release:

       apm    For coloring apmd's logs.

       distcc For coloring distccd's logs. (See distccd(1))

       exim   For coloring exim's main.log. (See exim(8))

       fetchmail
              For coloring fetchmail's log files. (See fetchmail(1))

       ftpstats
              For coloring ftpStats compatible log files, such as Pure-FTPD's Stats log format.

       httpd  For coloring apache-style access.log and error.log files. (See apache(8))

              As  a side-effect, all compatible formats, like pure-ftpd(8)'s common-log format is
              also supported by this plugin.

       icecast
              For coloring icecast/icecast.log and icecast/usage.log files. (See icecast(8))

       oops   For coloring oops/oops.log files.

       php    For coloring php.log files.

       postfix
              For coloring postfix logs. (See postfix(1))

       procmail
              For coloring procmail's log file. (See procmail(1))

       proftpd
              For coloring proftpd's access.log and auth.log files. (See proftpd(8))

       squid  For coloring squid's access.log, store.log and cache.log files. (See squid(8))

       sulog  For coloring sulog files. (See su(1))

       super  For coloring super.log files. (See super(1))

       syslog For coloring generic syslog messages. (See syslogd(8))

       ulogd  For coloring ulogd logs.

       vsftpd For coloring vsftpd.log files. (See vsftpd(8))

       xferlog
              For coloring xferlog files. (See xferlog(5))

FILES

       /etc/colorizerc, $HOME/.colorizerc
              These files are the default configuration files for colorize,  and  are  parsed  by
              ccze for the sake of full compatibility.
       /etc/cczerc, $HOME/.cczerc
              This  two are the main configuration files, in which one can change the colors used
              by the program to his liking. See the comments in the beginning of /etc/cczerc  for
              a description on the files' structure.

              If  neither  of  these  files  exist  on  your system, consider using the ccze-dump
              utility in the source tree, which dumps the default color set to standard output.

AUTHOR

       ccze was written by Gergely Nagy <algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org>,  based  on  colorize  by
       Istvan Karaszi <colorize@spam.raszi.hu>.