Sendmail Log Search Engine

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Rose, Bobby <brose at MED.WAYNE.EDU> wrote:
> I'm curious if anyone knows of a pseudo sendmail log search engine
> type app.  There are lots of log analyzers but what I'm looking for
> is a better way to search the logs for particular messages.
> Currently, it's a case of grepping for the sender, getting the
> message ID's and grepping each one until I found the one I'm looking
> for to see all the log entries for that message ID.  It would be
> easier and quicker with a gui where you enter the address, get a list
> of hyper-linked messages Ids that when clicked give the details.
>
> I don't have a problem continuing to use grep techniques but it would
> be nice if I could just dump this task off to our helpdesk people.
>
While not for the helpdesk, a oneliner is:
awk '/whattolookfor/ {print $6}' mail.log|grep -f - mail.log

awk outputs the msgid, and grep -f - reads the msgid from the file "-", i.e.
stdin. and uses it as pattern.

Leif

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