Thanks guys for the information. All good information!<?>

I guess what I didn't say was that I am Joe User in this case. What I am trying to accomplish is parsing the logs to see various things in a browser. For instance, REJECT messages from my firewall. Yes, the entire network is behind a firewall. The only users here are myself, my wife (she's blonde....), and the dogs. So from an internal perspective, I have little to worry about. From the outside, the www server is only accessible from a couple of addresses and then it is passworded.

So given the above, do you guys still think I'm at risk ? Now I liked BastardOperator's answer about grepping out the information I wanted. However, if I'm doing multiple things, then either I have to have multiple files or multiple grep args for the same file. Seems like at that point, then I've partially defeated the purpose of grepping the log file to start with.

Thanks

In reply to Re: Parsing log files by cajun
in thread Parsing log files by cajun

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