maillog

[Louis Spironello]

>From: Justin Bennett <Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com>
>Reply-To: nflug at nflug.org
>To: nflug at nflug.org
>Subject: maillog
>Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 08:34:57 -0500
>
>I'm looking for a utility to parse /var/log/maillog and give me info for 
>each message sent. for example who sent what to whom on what date.  As it 
>is usually there is one line for receiving and one line for sending. I'd 
>like to see one line with a to and from.
Hello Justin:

A few good utilities for parsing most log files are:
   awk
   sed
   perl

Awk can quickly parse out info by fields, records, etc.

You may wish to check out the following article found at Oreilly's site:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/linux/2002/11/01/awk3.html

Lou


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>Justin Bennett
>Network Administrator
>Dynabrade, Inc.
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