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* Automatically decompress .gz files in memory before reading.
* Automatically decompress .gz files in memory before reading.
* Read all data into an SQLite 'in memory' file, which allows fast and detailed filtering.
* Read all data into an SQLite 'in memory' file, which allows fast and detailed filtering.
== Questions ==
* How do we determine the year for each log entry? Could use current year, but what happens if we import logs from December and January?
* How do we identify Postfix log entries?


[[Category:Python]]
[[Category:Python]]

Revision as of 14:21, 6 February 2019

Script for searching through Postfix log files, effectively like exigrep but for Postfix instead of Exim.

Language choice

Use Python for speed of development and cross-platform code.

Features

  • Specify multiple input files, will all be read and processed.
  • Automatically decompress .gz files in memory before reading.
  • Read all data into an SQLite 'in memory' file, which allows fast and detailed filtering.

Questions

  • How do we determine the year for each log entry? Could use current year, but what happens if we import logs from December and January?
  • How do we identify Postfix log entries?