Re: Log file format

"Chad R. Larson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.firewalls.m0n0wall
Organization Mphasis Healthcare Solutions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Bob McConnell wrote:
> I set up m0n0wall about two months ago, and configured it to forward
> syslog to a server on my LAN. I now have seven weeks of log files that I
> would like to examine. I have started sketching out some Perl scripts to
> analyze them, but I cannot find any documentation on the format of those
> lines. Did I miss it somewhere? What do the fields mean and what is the
> full set of flag values that I need to look for?

The logs are in a format (syslog) in wide use, and there are already a
bunch of programs that will reduce them to tables and graphs.

Look at webalizer, for example.

> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Bob McConnell
> N2SPP
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