Re: [fw-wiz] (no subject)

From: Devdas Bhagat (devdas_at_dvb.homelinux.org)
Date: 03/23/04

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    Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:59:04 +0530
    
    

    On 23/03/04 08:42 +0000, Hilal Hussein wrote:
    >
    > Dear List,
    >
    > i have cisco pix firewall that is sending it log data to a cisco syslog
    > server (windowsxp workstation).
    Why not use a Linux/Unix syslog box?

    > it is working fine with me since it is a service, so i willl be sure that it
    > is running whenever the server is up and running.
    >
    > But i have two questions concerning this syslog:
    > 1 - the log files are too big since everyfile contains the whole day logs,
    > and since the file size is about 400 + Mb, i am not able to open it. kindly,
    > is there any third party utility which i can use to manage (open, check,
    > filter, ....) the log files of the cisco syslog?
    400 MB of data is not all that much for a dedicated Syslog server to
    handle.
    Repeat after me, Perl is your friend.
    (If not Perl, choose your flavour of scripting language).

    Devdas Bhagat
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