About:
Bofhlog is a simple tool for "active" and "passive" monitoring of Unix log files. "Active" means that you can see the changes in log files on the screen as new log entries are entered by syslog. It is the same functionality that "tail -f" offers, except that bofhlog can handle logrotate. "Passive" means that you don't have to watch the logs all the time; bofhlog can email or contact you by other means if something "critical" is entered in the log files. "Critical" means that bofhlog can be used both as a lightweight security auditing tool and as an error diagnostic tool for a Unix system.

Author:
Miika Komu [contact developer]

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8.42/10.00 (5 votes)

Tar/GZ:
http://www.iki.fi/miika/code/bofhlog.tgz

Trove categories: [change]

[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		System :: Monitoring

Dependencies: [change]
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Default			GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Comments

[»] Misleading error
by Kippster - Jun 4th 2003 06:59:52

First, great utility, thanks! Second, when I went to have it send mail, I received this message:

Can't locate Mail/Mailer/mail.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i3 site_perl/5.6.0/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_pe...

I don't think a Mail:Mailer::mail.pm exists. The problem was that I didn't have sendmail or qmail in my path, causing the code on line 1158 to set the params to look for this package.

Adding sendmail to my path made things happy.

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[»] Nice Util ... But ...
by Justin - Oct 14th 2002 14:26:52

This seems to be a nice utility. The only problem I have found is the -c option does not seem to work. It will only read the ~/.bofhlog.conf file and not an alternate file. Not sure if I am missing some thing here but as far as I can tell this is the only thing that is missing or broken.

- Justin

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[»] Re: Nice Util ... But ...
by Justin - Oct 15th 2002 13:27:06

My perl guy figured out the problem. The following line (starting with #) was replaced with the line below without the # sign.

#getopts("$(opt_debug)$(opt_configfile):", \%opts);
getopts('dc:', \%opts);

- Justin

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