syslogtocern(8)

💅 syslogtocern — the glow-up your thttpd logs deserve

okay so bestie, this is syslogtocern(8) from the System Manager's Manual — yes, a real section-8 manpage, we love a serious girlie in the system admin section 👑

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✨ NAME ✨

syslogtocern — takes your thttpd syslog entries and converts them into CERN Common Log format. it's giving "translator era" 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

syslogtocern logfile ...

that's it. one command, one or more logfile args, so simple it's lowkey iconic 💅

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the vibe: it reads one or more syslog files as input 📥 — like, plural, bring all your logfiles, it can handle it.

It takes the thttpd entries out of there and converts them into CERN Combined Common Log format ✨ (yes, the Combined one, we're fancy).

Then it produces two files as output:

• access_log 🔥
• error_log 😭

⚠️ heads up bestie: if files with those names already exist in the current directory, they are overwritten. no backup, no warning, no "are you sure?" — just gone, fr fr. check your cwd before you run this 🙈

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• thttpd(8) — the main character this whole thing is about 🫶

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💀 BUGS / DEFICIENCIES 💀

Not me having to tell you this, but:

• Lumps all thttpd processes together. 💀 like, all of them. in one pile.
• It ought to produce separate files for each process, identified by IP address and port number — that would be the slay version.
• However (and this is the sad part 😭), that change represents a huge increase in complexity, so… next version. periodt.

ngl this is the "we'll fix it in post" of manpages.

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Copyright © 1995 by Jef Poskanzer <jef@mail.acme.com>. All rights reserved. 🫶 we stan a 1995 icon

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🌟 this one's syslogtocern(8), dated 12 October 1995 — yes, 1995, it's vintage, it's retro, it's literally older than most of us 💅 happy log converting! 🎀