app to view logfiles

[Art Vandalay]

i was wondering what routine you guys use to go about checking your log files and in what particular order (if at all). do you manually comb each entry in var/log everyday or do you use a third party utilty to pick up only the interesting bits?

at the moment the only thing i can make heads or tails of are the entries in auth.log

in my redhat days a few years back i used a utiliy which would summarise points of interest in the log files and email them to me everyday, and another gui app which would open the log files and present them in a nice gui format, but for the life of me i can't remember what it was called.
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[Art Vandalay]

[Janne Pikkarainen]

Couple of handy tools:

- logwatch summarizes interesting events and e-mails them for you. I think logwatch is the same program which ships with Red Hat.

- Prelude watches for all kind of network and log events and the results can be seen via a nice web interface. There's even an installation manual for Prelude in Gentoo's web site.
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[hanj]

Here is a what I do:

I run logcheck every hour which will grep through messages.. looking for keywords/signatures. You can also ignore keywords.. or certain catches too.