Re: Delimited Log Files

From: me (me_at_here.com)
Date: 05/10/05

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    r1egnman74@yahoo.com wrote:
    > I am wanting to pull my linux log files, (especially /var/log/secure),
    > into a database on a windows machine and write some code to pull out
    > the entries where access has been denied. I am figuring that I can,
    > through VB, have the database pull out the entries that are denied and
    > automatically send and email to abuse@whatever.com with the pertinent
    > information rather than doing it by hand. My problem is that I don't
    > know how to pull the log files into the database and have it formatted
    > consistently with it just being plain text. I need them delimited in
    > some form or fashion. Is there a way to have linux delimit the log
    > files? Thanks for you help on this matter.
    >

    '/var/log/secure' is not only already in plain text, it's also already
    delimited with whitespace. What else could you want?

    Me.


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