{"id":889,"date":"2014-04-30T17:54:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/?p=889"},"modified":"2014-04-30T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T15:54:17","slug":"colorize-log-files-on-centos-and-ubuntu-using-ccze-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/2014\/04\/30\/colorize-log-files-on-centos-and-ubuntu-using-ccze-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorize log files on CentOS and Ubuntu using ccze tool"},"content":{"rendered":"

ccze<\/strong> is a wonderful tool that brings real joy to the arduous task of reading or searching thru log files<\/strong>.\u00a0It uses a modular approach to support custom colour formatting<\/strong> for popular applications such as Apache<\/strong>, Postfix<\/strong>, Exim<\/strong>, etc.<\/p>\n

Install ccze on CentOS and Fedora linux<\/h2>\n

First enable Epel repository<\/a> and run following command:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. # yum install ccze -y<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Install ccze on Debian\/Ubuntu linux<\/h2>\n

    On Debian\/Ubuntu, you can use apt-get to install:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. ~<\/span>$ sudo apt<\/span>–<\/span>get<\/span> install ccze <\/span>–<\/span>y<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      How to use ccze tool<\/h2>\n

      ccze colourises logs that are sent to standard out, for example, we can use tailf to follow a log file and then prettify the output by piping to ccze, examples:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. ~<\/span>$ tail <\/span>\/<\/span>var<\/span>\/<\/span>log<\/span>\/<\/span>syslog <\/span>|<\/span> ccze <\/span>–<\/span>A<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        \"Example<\/p>\n

        Export log files to html file using ccze tool:<\/p>\n

          \n
        1. ~<\/span>$ cat <\/span>\/<\/span>var<\/span>\/<\/span>log<\/span>\/<\/span>syslog <\/span>|<\/span> ccze <\/span>–<\/span>h <\/span>><\/span>~<\/span>\/Desktop\/<\/span>syslog<\/span>.<\/span>html<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Example:<\/p>\n

          \"cczz<\/p>\n

          This tool comes with plenty of options. You can customize it more in these files<\/p>\n

            \n
          1. \/<\/span>etc<\/span>\/<\/span>cczerc<\/span>,<\/span> $HOME<\/span>\/.<\/span>cczerc<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            To see list of plugins available just do<\/p>\n

              \n
            1. $ ccze <\/span>–<\/span>l<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

              Example output:<\/p>\n

                \n
              1. ~<\/span>$ ccze <\/span>–<\/span>l<\/span><\/li>\n
              2. Available<\/span> plugins<\/span>:<\/span><\/li>\n
              3. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
              4. Name<\/span>|<\/span>Type<\/span>|<\/span>Description<\/span><\/li>\n
              5. ————————————————————<\/span><\/li>\n
              6. apm <\/span>|<\/span>Partial<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> APM <\/span>sub<\/span>–<\/span>logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              7. distcc <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> distcc<\/span>(<\/span>1<\/span>)<\/span> logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              8. dpkg <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> dpkg logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              9. exim <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> exim logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              10. fetchmail <\/span>|<\/span>Partial<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> fetchmail<\/span>(<\/span>1<\/span>)<\/span>sub<\/span>–<\/span>logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              11. ftpstats <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> ftpstats <\/span>(<\/span>pure<\/span>–<\/span>ftpd<\/span>)<\/span> logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              12. httpd <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> generic HTTPD access <\/span>and<\/span> error logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              13. icecast <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span>Icecast<\/span>(<\/span>8<\/span>)<\/span> logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              14. oops <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> oops proxy logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              15. php <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> PHP logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              16. postfix <\/span>|<\/span>Partial<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> postfix<\/span>(<\/span>1<\/span>)<\/span>sub<\/span>–<\/span>logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              17. procmail <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> procmail<\/span>(<\/span>1<\/span>)<\/span> logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              18. proftpd <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> proftpd access <\/span>and<\/span> auth logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              19. squid <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> squid access<\/span>,<\/span> store <\/span>and<\/span> cache logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              20. sulog <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> su<\/span>(<\/span>1<\/span>)<\/span> logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              21. super<\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span>super<\/span>(<\/span>1<\/span>)<\/span> logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              22. syslog <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Generic<\/span> syslog<\/span>(<\/span>8<\/span>)<\/span> log coloriser<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              23. ulogd <\/span>|<\/span>Partial<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> ulogd <\/span>sub<\/span>–<\/span>logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              24. vsftpd <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Coloriser<\/span>for<\/span> vsftpd<\/span>(<\/span>8<\/span>)<\/span> logs<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n
              25. xferlog <\/span>|<\/span>Full<\/span>|<\/span>Generic<\/span> xferlog coloriser<\/span>.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                For more ccze optioins see man pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

                ccze is a wonderful tool that brings real joy to the arduous task of reading or searching thru log files.\u00a0It uses a modular approach to support custom colour formatting for popular applications such as Apache, Postfix, Exim, etc. Install ccze on CentOS and Fedora linux First enable Epel repository and run following command: # yum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kategerisiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shukko.com\/x3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}