[BBLISA] Does this tool exist?

[Patrick Nixon]

I replied directly to Eric earlier this week, but this is something
relatively easy to accomplish with SEC at
http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net/

By configuring a stanza with a simple * regex and a timer, you can keep
resetting the timer every time a new log entry comes in.

--Patrick

On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Eric Smith <esmithphoto at gmail.com> wrote:

> I occasionally have to dig through logs of various kinds... tomcat,
> apache, java programs (log4j),....
>
> And I've wondered if I should write this tool, or maybe it exists.
> Is there something that will tell me when there are gaps in a log
> file?  I would specify the format of the date/time info, then specify
> how big a gap I want to know about, and it would scan, ripping out the
> date/time & do the date math and when it got a big enough time gap
> between messages it would tell me.
>
> Maybe it would print the line number the gap started on and the start
> and stop date.  Pipe a grep into this command and it could be a really
> powerful way to gain some insight into my logs.
>
> I keep being surprised by the tools available in unix.... ggrep with
> -A and -B (awesome), I almost wrote xargs years ago until someone told
> me about it, ....
> Maybe this one already exists and my google-fu isn't strong enough to find
> it.
>
> I could write it in perl myself, but I'd rather not if I don't have to.  :)
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Eric
>
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