anteater - a log analyser for MTA logfiles

anteater [--domain=yourdomain.xxx --aliases-file=/home/myself/aliases --analyse-all --limit=NN --filter-file=/home/myself/maillog --report-html --report-html-file=anteater_report.html]

This manual page documents briefly the anteater commands.

This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

anteater is a log analyser for MTA logfiles (for example sendmail). The tool is written in 100% C++ and very easy to customize. Input, output, and the analysis are modular class objects with a clear interface. Currently there are modules for reading the syslog format of sendmail that do up to seven useful analyses and write the result in plain ASCII or HTML, to stdout or to files.

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

-v

Show version of program.

-h

Show short help.

-m

Show long help.

-mhtml

Show long help in HTML format.

--syslog-counter

Display the linecounter.

--syslog-year

Set the start year of the syslog file.

--lowercase-disable

Disable the lowercase filter.

--virtuser-file

Set a filename and activate this filter.

--domain

The primary domain of the mailserver.

--aliases-file

Set the filename for the aliases file.

--aliases-scramble

Scramble all names for public screenshots.

--lt-limit

Limit Output to n Lines.

--lt-no-delivery

Statistic with not delivered mail.

--lt-only-no-delivery

Statistic ONLY with not delivered mail.

--ltd-limit

Limit output to n lines.

--ltd-no-delivery

Statistic with not delivered mail.

--ltd-only-no-delivery

Statistic ONLY with not delivered mail.

--xt-limit

Limit output to n lines.

--xt-no-delivery

Statistic with not delivered mail.

--xt-only-no-delivery

Statistic ONLY with not delivered mail.

--mt-limit

Limit output to n lines.

--mt-no-delivery

Statistic with not delivered mail.

--mt-only-no-delivery

Statistic ONLY with not delivered mail.

--mf-limit

Limit output to n lines.

--mf-limit-to

Maximum recipients shown.

--mf-no-delivery

Statistic with not delivered mail.

--mf-only-no-delivery

Statistic ONLY with not delivered mail.

--bm-limit

Limit output to n lines.

--bm-limit-to

Maximum recipients shown.

--bm-no-delivery

Statistic with not delivered mail.

--bm-only-no-delivery

Statistic ONLY with not delivered mail.

--mr-limit

Limit output to n lines.

--mr-no-delivery

Statistic with not delivered mail.

--mr-only-no-delivery

Statistic ONLY with not delivered mail.

--ascii-dateformat

Change the default dateformat.

--ascii-width

Set a new screen width for the ascii output.

--html-dateformat

Change the default dateformat for HTML report.

--html-disable-hr

Disable the -hr- tag after every report.

--html-tableborder

Set the size of the tableborder.

--filter-disable

Disable all addressfilters.

--filter-file

Read this file, instead from stdin.

--filter-syslog

Switch to this filter.

--analyse-all

Enable all analysis.

--analyse-bm

Enable this analyse.

--analyse-lt

Enable this analyse.

--analyse-ltd

Enable this analyse.

--analyse-mf

Enable this analyse.

--analyse-mr

Enable this analyse.

--analyse-mt

Enable this analyse.

--analyse-xt

Enable this analyse.

--report-ascii

Select ASCII report.

--report-ascii-file

Write all output from ASCII report to this file.

--report-bm

Change the report for this analyse only.

--report-html

Select HTML report.

--report-html-file

Write all output from HTML report to this file.

--report-lt

Change the report for this analyse only.

--report-ltd

Change the report for this analyse only.

--report-mf

Change the report for this analyse only.

--report-mr

Change the report for this analyse only.

--report-mt

Change the report for this analyse only.

--report-xt

Change the report for this analyse only.

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This manual page was written by Andrea Capriotti a.capriotti@nettuno.it for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation, with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts and no Back-Cover Texts.