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I think rsyslogd & phpLogCon are great utilities, thanks for contributing your hard work to the community. I'm having a small issue removing some columns I don't want to see, and it's not obvious (understand, I'm a little slow ) where I need to do this. I want to remove the ProcessID & MessageType columns from the standard phpLogCon view. If you could just point me some documentation I should be reading that's fine too.

Thanks

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Hi c00p,

are you using the UserDB System as described here?
http://new.phplogcon.org/index.php?modu ... asics.html

If not I would recommend to install it, it will enable the phpLogCon Admin Center. With the admin center you can create your own views, and assign them to your sources.

However you can create one single custom view on normal config based installations as well , but you need to edit the config.php to do so. Search for this code in your config.php

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//$CFG['Columns'] = array ( SYSLOG_DATE, SYSLOG_FACILITY, SYSLOG_SEVERITY, SYSLOG_HOST, SYSLOG_SYSLOGTAG, SYSLOG_MESSAGETYPE, SYSLOG_MESSAGE );


And replace with this code:

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$CFG['Columns'] = array ( SYSLOG_DATE, SYSLOG_FACILITY, SYSLOG_SEVERITY, SYSLOG_HOST, SYSLOG_SYSLOGTAG, SYSLOG_MESSAGE );


best regards,
Andre Lorbach

Thanks for the reply. I had tried editing that field before and it didn't remove that field. I tried it again with no luck. I'll try setting up the userdb and see if that works any better. Everything else I've tweaked in the config.php has worked just fine, but removing those two fields is giving me fits. The other reason I thought it might be somewhere else, is because I didn't see a value for the empty "ProcessID" column.

I forgot to mention that you need to change the default view id for your source to LEGACY, so the example here:

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$CFG['Sources']['Source1']['ViewID'] = "LEGACY";

The columns definition in config.php will be automatically mapped to ViewID LEGACY.
Please note that you could change the default and hardcoded views in includes/function_config.php, but I do not recommend to go this way. I would prefer to use the config.php approach, or go for the UserDB.

best regards,
Andre Lorbach

I don't seem to have a convert.php script... I re-downloaded the latest stable (2.4) and don't see that script in there. I need to update the UserDB fields in config.php & run convert.php, correct? Do I need to pull a convert script from somewhere else?

[cdeville@fpslog001 ~]$ tar -ztf ./phplogcon-2.4.0.tar.gz */convert.php
tar: */convert.php: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors
[cdeville@fpslog001 ~]$ wget http://www.phplogcon.org/Downloads-req- ... d-36.phtml
*****Cut out wget schtuff*****
Saving to: `phplogcon-2.4.0.tar.gz.1'

100%[===============================================================================>] 267,929 173K/s in 1.5s

07:55:26 (173 KB/s) - `phplogcon-2.4.0.tar.gz.1' saved [267929/267929]

[cdeville@fpslog001 ~]$ tar -ztf ./phplogcon-2.4.0.tar.gz.1 */convert.php */install.php
phplogcon-2.4.0/src/install.php
tar: */convert.php: Not found in archive
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Version 2.4.x stable does not has the UserDB System yet.
Please use the latest Version from the Beta branch which is 2.5.13 at the moment:
http://www.phplogcon.org/downloads

If you start fresh, you can enable and install the UserDB during installation of phpLogCon.

regards,
Andre

ah, ok...it threw me off because the config.php had the userdb template there, just no convert script.

It was planned at the beginning and already in the config.php, but really finished with the start of the 2.5.x versions

Let me know if you got it working
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Andre

Yep, I installed the latest beta and everything is working as expected now.

Thanks for all the help.

Hi,

if you like phpLogCon, you could do the project a big favor and vote for it at

http://freshmeat.net/projects/phplogcon/

A good rating gives as more exposure and, being in its infancy, this is definitely something phpLogCon needs

If you are already registered with freshmeat, it is a single click but even if not it is a quick 1-minute action. Would be great if you have this time.

Thanks,
Rainer