HP R4.2 - Manual (Page 554)

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Summary of Commands logCat
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• -m — This option is the meticulous time check. Normally, the log file name
and the creation date are used to determine the date of the file. If the
creation dates have been messed up, the
-m flag causes the time stamp
of the first message in each log file to be used instead of the name and
modification date. This is slower but more reliable.
• -r root — Specifies an alternate root directory for textLogFmt file. The
default is /usr/spool/log. Also, the data directory containing the
compressed logging data files is expected to be in the root directory if not
overridden by the
-d flag or the LOGDATA environment variable.
• -a locant — Specifies the place to start printing.
• -z locant — Specifies the place to stop printing.
• -s locant — Searches for specific patterns or times.
• -q locant — Searches for specific patterns or times. This is the same as -
s if the locant is a time locant. If the locant is a search pattern, the search
is applied to the raw compressed log data instead of the expanded log
data. This means that the pattern can only include variable portions of the
logged messages. It is much faster than the
-s option when properly
applied.
A locant is one of two things, either a date/time stamp or a search pattern.
Dates can be any of the standard readable formats: mmm dd, yyyy,
mm/dd/yy, mm-dd-yy, and so on. The time is hh:mm:ss. It is also possible to
specify the separate elements as follows: sec=nn min=nn hour=nn