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Bayesian Tail

Posted by timothy on from the seek-novelty dept.

flok writes "We all know anti-spam-software using Bayesian filtering. The results with these are amazingly good. So that made me thinking: why not create a tool which monitors logfiles and determines using a Bayesian filter what events to display and what not? That's why I created btail. Btail is just that: it monitors a logfile and filters it with a Bayesian filter. The results are above my own expectations!"

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  1. Re:Cool idea but may be dangerous by AndroidCat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Or add sound effects. All movie and TV computers have sound effects! :) (Even if you don't need SFX for ZoneAlarm, the zip on my page has a fair collection of wav files.)

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  2. Use grep by ufnoise · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    grep ssh /var/log/messages > ssh.log


    grep -v ssh /var/log/messages > notssh.log


    Also, my current installation pretty much breaks things down into /var/log/maillog, /var/log/secure, and /var/log/messages.


    The reporting from the logwatch package also seems to be pretty good.