logpp (Log PreProcessor) 0.16

Introduction:
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Logpp  is  a  tool  for  preprocessing  event logs and feeding relevant
information to other programs for storing or in-depth analysis.  During
its work, logpp reads lines appended to input files (like tail(1) in -f
mode), matches the lines with  patterns  (e.g.,  regular  expressions),
converts  matching  lines  according to given templates, and writes the
results to given destinations.  Logpp supports multi-line matching  and
several  types of output destinations like regular files, FIFOs, exter-
nal programs, and the system logger.  Therefore, logpp  can  act  as  a
filter  in  front  of  the  more  complex event log analysis system and
increase the system's performance by weeding out irrelevant  log  data;
it  can  work  as  a  syslog  gateway between the system logger and the
application that doesn't use syslog(3); it can convert  multi-line  log
messages to shorter single line messages, and accomplish other log pre-
processing tasks.

Availability:
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This program is distributed under the terms of GNU General Public License
(see COPYING), and can be downloaded from http://logpp.sourceforge.net.

Installation:
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In order to build logpp, the following commands are usually sufficient:
./configure; make; make install
(see INSTALL for further details).
If the local system has the PCRE library (library that adds support for 
Perl-compatible regular expressions to programs), logpp will be linked 
with the library, otherwise support for POSIX regular expressions will
be compiled in. In order to enforce that logpp will be linked with the
PCRE library, run configure with the '--with-libpcre' option; in order 
to enforce the compilation with the POSIX regular expression support,
specify '--without--libpcre' option for configure.

Author:
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Risto Vaarandi <ristov at users d0t s0urcef0rge d0t net>

