alex wrote:

> Firstly this is what I am setting out to do.
> I have a background script I wrote (I'm not very good with scripts at
> all). The script runs tcpdump -n -e -ttt -r /var/log/pflog >pflog.txt
> then sleeps for 30 seconds, then repeats the same command.
> What I want to do, is somehow convert the data in pflog.txt into a HTML
> page that refreshes every 60 seconds or so, so I can watch it in a web
> browser. I'd probably want to tail -n 50 the data in the text file before
> converting it because there will be a lot of output
> I have apache on a diff box on my LAN, I can use wget to get pflog.txt
> from the original machine, over to the machine running apache.. My issue
> is with converting the text data.
> Any clues or suggestions/urls?
> I'm not afraid to RTFM, but which manuals to I need to read?

Here is an example which should explain everything. The example assumes that
/var/log/pflog is readable for the webserver user.

#!/bin/sh

echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo
echo ""
echo ""
echo ""
echo ""
echo ''
echo ""
tcpdump -n -e -tttt -r /var/log/pflog | tail -n 50 | while read line; do
echo "$line
"; done
echo ""

HTH, Helmut

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Helmut Schneider wrote:
> #!/bin/sh
>
> echo "Content-type: text/html"
> echo
> echo ""
> echo ""
> echo ""
> echo ""
> echo ''
> echo ""
> tcpdump -n -e -tttt -r /var/log/pflog | tail -n 50 | while read line; do
> echo "$line
"; done
> echo ""
>
> HTH, Helmut

This should help enormously :-) Thank you!!!

I did make an attempt of my own, but it didn't go quite to plan, I
couldn't figure out a way to get the
on the end of each line in the
text file.

Cheers,
Alex

alex wrote:
> Helmut Schneider wrote:
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> echo "Content-type: text/html"
>> echo
>> echo ""
>> echo ""
>> echo ""
>> echo " "
>> echo ''
>> echo ""
>> tcpdump -n -e -tttt -r /var/log/pflog | tail -n 50 | while read line; do
>> echo "$line
"; done
>> echo ""
>>
>> HTH, Helmut
>
> This should help enormously :-) Thank you!!!
>
> I did make an attempt of my own, but it didn't go quite to plan, I
> couldn't figure out a way to get the
on the end of each line in the
> text file.
>
> Cheers,
> Alex

Not necessary.

Use instead,

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YANSWBVCG wrote:
> Not necessary.
>
> Use instead,
>
>
>

> ...

> 

>

Sweet, I'll take a look at this :-)

Thanks!