https://sourceforge.net/p/logcolourer/wiki/Home/Recent changes to HomeenWed, 22 May 2013 11:46:23 -0000https://sourceforge.net/p/logcolourer/wiki/Home/<div class="markdown_content"><pre>--- v9 +++ v10 @@ -3,11 +3,11 @@ When something goes wrong, it's often best to look in your system log. However, there's often so much activity being logged that it's hard to see what's important. One approach to removing the background logging activity is to filter the log for errors and alerts. However, the resulting log stream shows the important events out of context. Another approach is to use an unfiltered log stream, but colour and highlight the log stream message according to their severity, say with error lines in red and alerts in bold yellow. -This documentation talks a lot about *syslog-ng*. *logcolourer* is not part of **syslog-ng*, and you might be able to use it with other syslog programs, or indeed for other files than system logs. However, the *syslog-ng.conf*file is known to allow the necessary customization to support *logcolourer*. +This documentation talks a lot about *syslog-ng*. *logcolourer* is not part of *syslog-ng*, and you might be able to use it with other syslog programs, or indeed for other files than system logs. However, the *syslog-ng.conf* file is known to allow the necessary customization to support *logcolourer*. -[Syslog-ng](http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system "http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system") doesn't allow you to select a log message's colour, but it does allow you to use a custom template contains the message severity as a single-digit level number. The *logcolourer* program replaces this level number with an ANSI escape sequence to highlight and colour the message. +[Syslog-ng](http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system "http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system") doesn't allow you to select a log message's colour, but it does allow you to use a custom template containing the message severity as a single-digit level number. The *logcolourer* program replaces this level number with an ANSI escape sequence to highlight and colour the message. -The advantage of inserting ANSI escape sequences is you get the colours when you display a file of the messages using any terminal program such as *tail* or *less*; you don't need to run a graphics environment. It even works OK if over SSH to a remote system. +The advantage of inserting ANSI escape sequences is you get the colours when you display a file of the messages using any terminal program such as *tail* or *less*; you don't need to run a graphics environment. It even works OK over SSH to a remote system. [[project_screenshots]] </pre> </div>Paul GoverWed, 22 May 2013 11:46:23 -0000https://sourceforge.net8d3e10f0ecb56828ba391ffca25a263feaa2409dhttps://sourceforge.net/p/logcolourer/wiki/Home/Welcome to your wiki! This is the default page, edit it as you see fit. To add a new page simply reference it within brackets, e.g.: [SamplePage]. The wiki uses [Markdown](/p/logcolourer/wiki/markdown_syntax/) syntax. [[project_admins]] [[download_button]] Paul GoverThu, 09 Feb 2012 14:19:26 -0000https://sourceforge.net0a9d4135255e54832f64423c4574367158ee33dc