SYNOPSIS

       ccze [options] <logfile

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the ccze utility, which is a drop-in
       replacement for colorize, but written in  C,  to  be  faster  and  less
       resource-hungry.  The  goal  was  to be fully backwards compatible, yet
       superior with respect to speed and features.

OPTIONS

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

       -a, --argument PLUGIN=ARGUMENTS
              Use this option to pass ARGUMENTS to the specified  PLUGIN.  The
              argument list is whitespace separated.

       -A, --raw-ansi
              If one wants to enable raw ANSI color sequences instead of using
              curses, this option does just that.

       -c, --color KEY=COLOR
              Set the color of the keyword KEY to COLOR, like one would do  in
              one of the configuration files.

       -C, --convert-date
              Convert  unix  timestamp  to  readable  date format (in oops and
              squid logs, for example).

       -F, --rcfile rcfile
              Read rcfile as a configuration file upon startup, instead of the
              default ones.

       -h, --html
              Instead  of  colorising the input onto the console, output it in
              HTML format instead.

       -l, --list-plugins
              List all available (loaded) plugins, along with their type and a
              short description.

       -m, --mode mode
              Change  the  output  mode.  Available modes are curses, ansi and
              html.

       -o, --options OPTIONS...
              CCZE is able to toggle some of its features  with  this  option.
              You  can  toggle the scroll, wordcolor, lookups, and transparent
              features, or you can fiddle  with  cssfile.  All  of  these  are
              enabled  by  default,  except  cssfile. One can turn them off by
              prefixing the option with a "no".

              With the transparent option, one can make CCZE treat black back-
              ground  colors  as  transparent - that means, a black background
              will appear transparent in a similar X terminal. If turned  off,
              it will appear as black.

              If cssfile is set, then CCZE will not inline the Cascading Style
              Sheet information into the outputted HTML, but include a link to
              the external stylesheet given in this paramater.

       -p, --plugin PLUGIN
              While the default action is to load all plugins (see the Plugins
              section below), when this option is present, only the  specified
              plugins  will  be  loaded. If one knows what kind of log will be
              piped through ccze, using this option may  result  in  a  slight
              speedup.

       -r, --remove-facilty
              Syslog-ng puts the facility level before log messages. With this
              switch, these can be cut off.

       --help Show summary of options and exit.

       -V, --version
              Show version of program.

PLUGINS

       Different programs have different kind of logs, and every kind  of  log
       ccze supports is implemented via a plug-in. They are by default located
       under /lib/ccze and $HOME/.ccze (so they can be overridden by the  user
       easily).

       At  the  moment,  the  following  modules are bundled with the official
       release:

       apm    For coloring apmd's logs.

       distcc For coloring distccd's logs. (See distccd(1))

       exim   For coloring exim's main.log. (See exim(8))

       fetchmail
              For coloring fetchmail's log files. (See fetchmail(1))

       ftpstats
              For coloring ftpStats compatible log files, such as  Pure-FTPD's
              Stats log format.

       httpd  For  coloring  apache-style access.log and error.log files. (See
              apache(8))

              As a side-effect, all compatible  formats,  like  pure-ftpd(8)'s
              For coloring procmail's log file. (See procmail(1))

       proftpd
              For coloring  proftpd's  access.log  and  auth.log  files.  (See
              proftpd(8))

       squid  For  coloring squid's access.log, store.log and cache.log files.
              (See squid(8))

       sulog  For coloring sulog files. (See su(1))

       super  For coloring super.log files. (See super(1))

       syslog For coloring generic syslog messages. (See syslogd(8))

       ulogd  For coloring ulogd logs.

       vsftpd For coloring vsftpd.log files. (See vsftpd(8))

       xferlog
              For coloring xferlog files. (See xferlog(5))

FILES

       /etc/colorizerc, $HOME/.colorizerc
              These files are the default configuration  files  for  colorize,
              and are parsed by ccze for the sake of full compatibility.
       /etc/cczerc, $HOME/.cczerc
              This  two  are  the  main  configuration files, in which one can
              change the colors used by the program to  his  liking.  See  the
              comments  in  the  beginning of /etc/cczerc for a description on
              the files' structure.

              If neither of these files exist on your system,  consider  using
              the  ccze-dump  utility  in  the  source  tree,  which dumps the
              default color set to standard output.

SEE ALSO

       colorize(1)

AUTHOR

       ccze was written by Gergely Nagy <algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org>, based
       on colorize by Istvan Karaszi <colorize@spam.raszi.hu>.



CCZE 0.2.1                        2003-04-24                           CCZE(1)