The sys admin’s daily grind: phpLogCon

MILKING MACHINE 2.0

Article from Issue 92/2008
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Using SQL to sift syslog data out of a database is an admittedly universal, but also fairly convoluted approach. phpLogCon, with its web interface, gives admins an easier option.

In last month’s issue, I talked about RSyslog, a replacement for the syslog daemons. Instead of referencing the standard logfiles in /var/log, RSyslog works with one or multiple databases in which it logs local results or data supplied by remote servers. I always use one database, Maillog, for the mail facility, and a second database, syslog, for all other messages.
A couple of scripts extract statistics on spam filter performance from the Maillog DB.

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