[ale] Syslog and MySQL

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A. Knapka)]

Jonathan Rickman wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, John Cole wrote:
> 
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I'm looking at dumping various syslog files to a MySQL database.
> >
> > The problem is that most programs I've seen only accept linux/unix default
> > syslog types to dump to MySQL.
> >
> > I'm looking at dumping logs from a variety of different sources though my
> > first priority is PIX firewall logs.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Well, this sounds like a job for perl. Fletch???

Or you could use Python, the advantage being that you'll
probably be able to comprehend the code (even if you
didn't write it :-))...

-- Joe
  "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
   sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
   the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me

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