On 2017 Jan 30 08:06:00, you wrote to me:

 SS> I want to pull information from the log files and store in a database to
 SS> create stats bulletins and to display specific parts of the log file on
the
 SS> main form, such as last inbound connection and last outbound connection
for
 SS> the mailer, etc, etc, etc.

ok, that should be pretty straight forward, then... simply read the line and
break it into specific parts... then use those parts for the tallying... some
logs carry log level indicators before the datetime stamp... some have the
date at the top of the section and only the timestamp on each line... aside
from that it is just a matter of reading the log and deciding which lines you
need to keep and tally as well as being able to detect which systems are
contacted outbound or have contacted inbound so overall tallys as well as
inbound and outbound can be kept...

it is your average tedious log analysis stuff, that's for sure... i find it in
the same realm as BBS stats on users' data, BBS usage and even file
uploading/downloading as well as message postings ;)

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