Wondering what you all do/use for monitoring logs on your boards. I guess this is likely specific to Linux sysops.
Re: SBBS log monitoring
By: Gamgee to All on Thu Jan 25 2024 09:03 pm
Wondering what you all do/use for monitoring logs on your boards. I guess this is likely specific to Linux sysops.
I don't watch live logs much for my Linux server (it spews and spews), but when I do, I usually use journalctl. It colorizes based on severity and supports all the options I need (search, tail and what-not).
Wondering what you all do/use for monitoring logs on your boards. I guess this is likely specific to Linux sysops.
Hello all,
Wondering what you all do/use for monitoring logs on your boards. I
guess this is likely specific to Linux sysops.
I have a few terminals open to "tail" the sbbs.log, the sbbsecho.log,
and one that filters (grep) for 'tickit' entries. Been doing it that
way for a long while, and it works fine, I guess.
Has anyone used the 'lnav' utility to watch logs? It's pretty slick,
has LOTS of options, and I like the use of colors in logs to help
things "jump out" at you. If anyone is using this, and has taken the
time to customize the look/feel of how it displays, would you comment
on how you're using it, and would you maybe be willing to share your
custom config that I could use as a starting point to learn how it's
done?
Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-
Re: SBBS log monitoring
By: Gamgee to All on Thu Jan 25 2024 09:03 pm
Wondering what you all do/use for monitoring logs on your boards. I guess this is likely specific to Linux sysops.
As DM said, I tend to use journalctl, as it colorizes things.
I don't regularly watch the logs for ticket & others though..
A while ago, I wrote some JS to parse my Synchronet node logs for information on which doors have been played the most, and I made
a web page for my BBS that generates some graphs with the data:
http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com/digdist-pages/DoorStats.xjs
nelgin wrote to Gamgee <=-
Wondering what you all do/use for monitoring logs on your boards. I
guess this is likely specific to Linux sysops.
I have a few terminals open to "tail" the sbbs.log, the sbbsecho.log,
and one that filters (grep) for 'tickit' entries. Been doing it that
way for a long while, and it works fine, I guess.
Has anyone used the 'lnav' utility to watch logs? It's pretty slick,
has LOTS of options, and I like the use of colors in logs to help
things "jump out" at you. If anyone is using this, and has taken the
time to customize the look/feel of how it displays, would you comment
on how you're using it, and would you maybe be willing to share your
custom config that I could use as a starting point to learn how it's
done?
Sounds interesting. I might take a look at that.
Right now I split my logs with syslog to create separate mail,
term, services, web, mail, irc, and general sbbs logs. This helps
when I'm looking for something I don't have to do a lot of
grepping and can look in one specific file.
I also don't generally sit looking a logs unless there's an issue
and I'm trying to find something specific, but I do usually have
3 terminals open for tail -f on the *sbbs.log files, sbbsecho.log
and binkd.log. I'll usually peek at the once or twice a day to
make sure things are running ok.
A while ago, I wrote some JS to parse my Synchronet node logs for information on which doors have been played the most, and I made a web page for my BBS that generates some graphs with the data:
http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com/digdist-pages/DoorStats.xjs
http://www.digitaldistortionbbs.com/digdist-pages/DoorStats.xjs
Why isn't this in git for all sysops to use? That's cool.
I was thinking of possibly adding more to it and refining it some more.. I hadn't gotten around to that yet though. Maybe I will put it in git or offer it for download somewhere..
Re: SBBS log monitoring
By: Nightfox to nelgin on Sat Jan 27 2024 15:06:45
I was thinking of possibly adding more to it and refining it some more.. I hadn't gotten around to that yet though. Maybe I will put it in git or offer it for download somewhere..
Maybe there should be a /sbbs/3rdp for stuff that really doesn't fix in /xtrn but may be useful to other sysops, stuff like stats reports and the like.
That said, I guess /xtrn is a perfectly fine place to stick them since your DD_stuff is there.
The 'xtrn' sub-dir of 'sbbs' is for online external programs (i.e. doors, maybe message editors), not web stuff.
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