https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/tags/syslog/ Recent content in Syslog on Aaron's Worthless Words Hugo en Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2009/01/a-better-way-to-handle-logs/ Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000 https://a996c8ee.aww-3cz.pages.dev/posts/2009/01/a-better-way-to-handle-logs/ <p>Happy new year, all.  I&rsquo;m finally over my hangover from the party and ready to blog.</p> <p>Everywhere I go, I always wind up in a debate about how to alert on log messages as they come in.  I was at the grocery store yesterday, and the cashier told me that she had a list of log messages that she watched for, and, if she saw one of them, she sent an email.  I asked her what she would do if she got a log message that she had never seen before, and she said that she would have to find it first, then research the message and put in an alert for the next time it showed up.</p>