nagios log file date format

[Israel Brewster]

On Jul 15, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Chris Waters wrote:

> You could do something like this:
>
> Replace the paths to reflect your environment.
>
> tail -f /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log | perl -pe
> 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e'
>    or
> grep 'something important to look for'
> somelogfilewithepochtimestamps.log | perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/ 
> e'
>    or
> perl -pe 's/(\d+)/localtime($1)/e'  somelogfilewithepochtimestamps.log
>

Thank you! This is (for me at least) a much better approach than the  
one specified in the FAQ, in that I can (as in your first example) use  
it with tail -f for real-time monitoring when testing stuff. Any  
chance of getting this approach incorporated into the FAQ's?
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>
> Chris Waters
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: shadih rahman [mailto:shadhin71 at gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:10 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios log file date format
>
>
> Is there any way to change nagios log file date format to human  
> readable
> format.  I did not see any option in nagios.cfg file.  Please advise  
> on
> this.  Thanks
>
> -- 
> Cordially,
> Shadhin Rahman
>
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