Comments for Sanford Whitehouse - Floating By http://lcsmith.com/blog Log Management and Log Analysis Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:40:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on Drawing Lines by Fun Reading on Logs and Log Management | IT & Network Security Blog http://lcsmith.com/blog/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-7 Fun Reading on Logs and Log Management | IT & Network Security Blog Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:43:59 +0000 http://lcsmith.com/blog/?p=9#comment-7 [...] from Sanford on logging standards: “Drawing Lines“, an awesome post [...] [...] from Sanford on logging standards: “Drawing Lines“, an awesome post [...]

]]> Comment on Why standards? by It Is With Great Trepidation… | IT & Network Security Blog http://lcsmith.com/blog/?p=4&cpage=1#comment-6 It Is With Great Trepidation… | IT & Network Security Blog Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:54:51 +0000 http://lcsmith.com/blog/?p=4#comment-6 [...] first post “Why standards?” starts thus: “I’ve often wondered about the viability of broad vendor adoption of a log [...] [...] first post “Why standards?” starts thus: “I’ve often wondered about the viability of broad vendor adoption of a log [...]

]]> Comment on Yeah, I did by Dimitri McKay http://lcsmith.com/blog/?p=3&cpage=1#comment-3 Dimitri McKay Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:49:48 +0000 http://lcsmith.com/blog/?p=3#comment-3 I did too, Sanford. Now that scanner sits beside me, the power plug missing. It hasn't scanned in years. The logs on the other hand, although written in dozens of cryptic formats, binary to ascii, flat file to syslog, those I find myself hunched over, attempting to create some magic search filters that will satisfy that POC customer into believing that the answer he was looking for can be resolved with a boolean or regex expression. Tax receipts or Sendmail logs, I hunch over them with the same frustration and cold desperation. Perhaps I need a new scanner. I did too, Sanford. Now that scanner sits beside me, the power plug missing. It hasn’t scanned in years. The logs on the other hand, although written in dozens of cryptic formats, binary to ascii, flat file to syslog, those I find myself hunched over, attempting to create some magic search filters that will satisfy that POC customer into believing that the answer he was looking for can be resolved with a boolean or regex expression.

Tax receipts or Sendmail logs, I hunch over them with the same frustration and cold desperation.

Perhaps I need a new scanner.

]]> Comment on Why standards? by Dimitri McKay http://lcsmith.com/blog/?p=4&cpage=1#comment-2 Dimitri McKay Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:42:38 +0000 http://lcsmith.com/blog/?p=4#comment-2 Welcome to the blog-o-sphere, Sanford. It's good to have you. Great post. I really like the fact that this will give you more of an avenue to express exactly what you are an expert on. The content of Logs. Cheers, Dimitri Welcome to the blog-o-sphere, Sanford. It’s good to have you. Great post. I really like the fact that this will give you more of an avenue to express exactly what you are an expert on. The content of Logs.

Cheers,

Dimitri

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