creates gantt charts to visualize the time and duration of login sessions on a linux/unix system.
Example:
- parses log files as
/var/log/auth.log - creates a gantt chart with a bar for each user showing the time and duration of his/her logins
- output as png or jpeg
- Java 1.5 or later
The content of this project is licensed under the GNU Lesser GPL.
- build executing
gradleand find the executable jar inbuild/libs - execute on the command line:
java -jar build/libs/log2gantt-*.jar -i /var/log/auth.log) - eventually include it in a cron job and send the output image by mail to the server admin
See the full list of command line arguments by executing java -jar log2gantt-*.jar --help
usage: java log2gantt.AuthLog2Gantt [options]<br>
where options include:<br>
-i logfile the input logfile to parse (default: auth.log)<br>
-o imagefile the output image file to write (default: auth_log_gantt.png)<br>
-w width the width of the output image (default: 600) [pixels]<br>
-h height the height of the output image (default: 0) [pixels]<br>
-t title the title in the output image (default: null)<br>
-f to force overwriting the output file (default: false)<br>
For a daily update about what's happening on our server we integrated log2gantt in the Logcheck script which is executed daily by cron.
In the script we call log2gantt after the file auth_check.$$ was created by inserting the following lines
JARFILE=$(ls -1 /usr/local/log2gantt/log2gantt-*.jar | sort | tail -n 1)
java -Xmx30m -jar $JARFILE -i $TMPDIR/auth_check.$$ -o $TMPDIR/auth_gantt_$$.png -f
To attach the gantt graph picture to the result mail we inserted -a /$TMPDIR/gantt_chart_$$.png after the two $MAIL commands at the end of the script (we use mutt as mailer).
Finally we let cron execute the Logcheck script daily by executing the command
> ln -s /usr/local/bin/logcheck.sh /etc/cron.daily/logcheck.sh