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Changes for version 0.08 - 2022-10-22

  • Make sure there's no warnings or errors under normal cases.
  • Removed the -v for vim option.
  • Changed from using the PWD env var to Cwd::cwd() because sudo wasn't setting the PWD env var.
  • Changed options to be -i for info and -s for statistics.
  • Changed -a to -m for max records. And to have it show records you use -v along with it.
  • Options that take arguments like -a and -g now require a space before the argument so instead of -a5 it's -m 5.
  • Removed -? option, now its only --help, -help, or -h for that.
  • Changed -f option from doing a tail -f to filtering results based on a given regexp. If you want to tail -f just tail -f `elog -p`.
  • The -l option shows the full path of the log file, not just the basename of the file.
  • The relative date string always shows "x units ago" before if it was over a certain number of days it would show like "Jun 2022" now it would show "4 months ago".
  • Make sure there's space between the number and it's unit and between the time and the AM/PM.
  • Show slowest locations in alog -s.
  • Do not show rotation count and combined size in -l or -L output.
  • Originally log files were looped backwards, with the tac program, so it can limit to the most recent x errors, but it couldnt show the errors till the script was done. Now, it loops in order but gets the last x errors by using the tail program.
  • Added an offset option -o, so you can limit to the most recent x errors but at an offset line number into the file.
  • Added elog -s option to show info and statistics about the log.
  • When you don't have a format string for a log, either use key value pairs in the log line itself, or a default format string depending on the content of the first line.

Documentation

An Apache access log viewer
An Apache error log viewer

Modules

An Apache access log viewer
An Apache error log viewer