[Techtalk] parsing logs

[Lesli St. Clair]

Hello All,
I'll preface this by saying I work more on Solaris than Linux, but my 
question applies to both.

I've been using LogWatch to parse my sendmail and apache logs, to give 
me a quick summary of activity. It works well, but as with anything 
good, it gives you a taste for something better. I'd like a stats 
program that either does some charting (to show trends etc) much like 
Wusage for apache stats or at least spits things out in such a way they 
can be pulled into a spreadsheet.

While I use these summaries for sysadmin type stuff, my bosses would 
like more statistics out of them (like how much junk mail we reject, how 
may nasty types try to relay, and so on). I suppose I could rewrite 
LogWatch--but I'd rather not. :)

So--does anyone know of such a package, open source or otherwise?
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Lesli St. Clair
Systems Administrator, Ithaca College
lstclari at ithaca.edu