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diff --git a/sysutils/logtool/pkg-descr b/sysutils/logtool/pkg-descr index 3fdbd39d49f3..eefdb39f7bdb 100644 --- a/sysutils/logtool/pkg-descr +++ b/sysutils/logtool/pkg-descr @@ -1,8 +1,7 @@ -Logtool is a command line program that will parse syslog (and syslog- -like) logfiles into a more palatable format. It will take anything -resembling a standard syslog file (this includes syslog-ng, and -probably most of the other variants out there), and crunch it into one -of the following formats for your viewing pleasure: +Logtool is a command line program that will parse ASCII logfiles into a more +palatable format. It will take anything resembling a standard syslog file +(this includes syslog-ng, multilog, and probably most of the other variantse), +and crunch it into one of the following formats for your viewing pleasure: - ANSI (colorized for easy "at a glance" viewing) - ASCII (for e-mail'ed reports, and term's that don't support color) @@ -10,8 +9,10 @@ of the following formats for your viewing pleasure: - HTML (for generating web pages) - RAW (for no good reason) -It can be configured to parse the data any one of several ways, -including stripping the host, and/or program fields, and modifying the -time display format of the log entry's. +It can be configured to parse the data any one of several ways, including +suppressing duplicate messages, stripping the host, and/or program fields, +and modifying the time display format (supports TAI64 timestamps produced +by DJB's multilog) of the log entries. -WWW: http://www.xjack.org/logtool/ +Author: A.L.Lambert +WWW: http://xjack.org/logtool/ |