*nice* maillog output

[Jack Bowling]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 02:35:27AM +0100, Craig Tinson wrote:
> ok.. this doesn't work...
> 
> tail -F /var/log/maillog | egrep --line-buffered -v 
> 'imapd|connection|processing' | awk '{print $1" "$2" -("$3")"}' | grcat 
> conf.craig
> 
> am presuming that awk doesn't like not have a finished pipe.. but the 
> man page doesn't mention anything about buffering..
> 
> awk seems the way to go.. because...
> 
> tail -n500 -F /var/log/maillog | egrep --line-buffered -v 
> 'imapd|connection|processing' | cut -d" " -f0,3,6,7,8,9,10 | grcat 
> conf.craig
> 
> runs, at the moment, about 30-60 mins from the end of the log... but 
> thats probably something completely different....which is a shame.. as 
> it gives as close to an output as i'm looking for...
<snip>

Have you checked out multitail? It has regex filtering capabilities:

http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/


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Jack Bowling
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