Re: (perl)script for cfengine analysis

[Thomas Glanzmann]

> I simply turned "Syslog = (on)" and used my existing syslog parsing
> tools to read the cfengine output on a central loghost. Once my cfengine
> configuration(s) started to stabilize I didn't generate too much
> cfengine log traffic.

> Of course I risk losing logs this way, since syslog over UDP (or even
> TCP if connectivity is delayed for more than a moment) is unreliable.
> The compromise is worth it in my case, since I didn't need new tools, I
> could extend my current ones as needed.

What do you use for analyzing your syslog output (swatch?). Could you provide a
example configuration?

But my main problem is that cfengine spawns a script named update to update,
install, deinstall packages. And I want the output sorted: Like

cfengine did not run on the follwing hosts during the day: faui0bla, ...

On 67 hosts happened the following during the day:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
  bsdutils mount util-linux 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3  not upgraded.

Greetings,
        Thomas
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...to all cfengine users. Thanks for your interest in cfengine,
and let us hope for time and opportunity to go further in the New Year,

Hope to meet some of you at the Nordu2002 meeting in Sweden in March,
or the IM2003 meeting in Colorado Springs in March.

best wishes,
Mark


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