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At 02:00 AM 11/26/2001, Brad Knowles wrote:

>         Go to <http://www.logreport.org/> and look at their "lire" 
> package.  The last versions I saw were getting to the point where they 
> were almost as good as "pflogsumm" (the best log summary output I've 
> seen for any MTA), and since they have separate parsing & reporting 
> modules, it will work exactly the same with sendmail, postfix, & 
> qmail.  They have a web report module now, and a lot more.

I have been doing a great deal of work on log monitoring, and was 
interested in working with this group until I discovered that all of 
their output (including their DTDs) is GPLed. Alas, because the DTDs are 
GPLed and no other documentation of their "DLF" file format is provided, 
there is a serious risk of GPL contamination if one writes a program 
which interoperates with theirs. Unless they agree to release their DTDs 
under a truly free license, I'll have to implement something myself that 
IS truly free.

--Brett


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