Syscheck - LOGBOOK Tool

Changes

Version	Author	Date	Comment
1.0	Henrik Andreasson	2016-11-27	Initial version
1.1	Henrik Andreasson	2020-07-31	mkdocs updates

Log book is a tool to log activities by the operators, it may be trouble shooting, handover of problems/incidents to next operator or any important info.

to enable sudo run:

usermod -D wheel -a username

logbook samples

Help:

$ ./logbook.sh -h
./logbook.sh: Tool to log messages to syscheck

This is syscheck, loogbook.sh it ask for a entry then logs it.
./logbook.sh [ -r <days> |  -p ] (read is default)

to post an entry, it is a single line, need more lines, just run again.

$ ./logbook.sh -p
./logbook.sh: Tool to log messages to syscheck

Enter any type of info that needs to be logged into the logbook (max 160 chars)
> Fault tracing the server is slow

read the log, press enter to see next day, ctrl-c to exit

$ ./logbook.sh -r
./logbook.sh: Tool to log messages to syscheck

Logentries for: 20171119
701-00-I-7011-PKI 20171119 11:54:28 vroom: INFO - User: han ; Logentry: Fault tracing the server is slow
end-of-entries, press enter to see next day
Logentries for: 20171118
end-of-entries, press enter to see next day
Logentries for: 20171117
end-of-entries, press enter to see next day
Logentries for: 20171116
700-00-I-7003-PKI 20171116 15:48:23 vroom: INFO - User: han is getting root, with syscheck on hold reason: Change #363636 - update keystore 47
700-00-I-7004-PKI 20171116 15:48:31 vroom: INFO - User: han is done with root reason: Change #363636 - update keystore 47
end-of-entries, press enter to see next day
Logentries for: 20171115
end-of-entries, press enter to see next day^C

read the log x days and exit (put it in your .bashrc maybe)

$ ./logbook.sh -r 7
./logbook.sh: Tool to log messages to syscheck

Logentries for: 20171119
701-00-I-7011-PKI 20171119 11:54:28 vroom: INFO - User: han ; Logentry: Fault tracing the server is slow
Logentries for: 20171118
Logentries for: 20171117
Logentries for: 20171116
700-00-I-7003-PKI 20171116 15:48:23 vroom: INFO - User: han is getting root, with syscheck on hold reason: Change #363636 - update keystore 47
700-00-I-7004-PKI 20171116 15:48:31 vroom: INFO - User: han is done with root reason: Change #363636 - update keystore 47
701-00-I-7011-PKI 20171116 15:49:21 vroom: INFO - User: han ; Logentry: ny var det konstigt
Logentries for: 20171115
Logentries for: 20171114
Logentries for: 20171113