On Fri, 9 Nov 2007, David BOURIAUD wrote:
> using a text utility like grep is not suitable. I think of this when you
> get a many hundreds of MB logfile at least, or when you need to track
> commands made by one peculiar user in real-time.
If your problem is that individual log files are too big to search
usefully, one option is to set log_rotation_size so that doesn't happen.
As for real-rime, I do this all the time with some variant on
tail -f <log> | grep <user>
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* Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
