psemiletov / logfilegen

The server log file generator

logfilegen

The server log file generator

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Dockerhub repo

AUR, openSUSE

ABOUT

Logfilegen is a fast and highly customizable tool to generate server (nginx, etc) or user-defined format log files. You can generate log file with the desired rate (lines per second), the file size, lines count and the duration. Each variable of the log file can be redefined by the random or static value. logfilegen depends just on GCC or Clang with C++11 support, and, optionally, cmake.

USE

The server log file generator. logfilegen is controlled by the configuration variables and templates. The usual way to run logfilegen from the command line is, for example:

logfilegen --template=mytemplate.tp --duration=20 --rate=100 --logfile=out.log

The configuration variables affects how logfilegen works, and templates affects the generation of log file.

Please read the Manual:

Installation

Configuration

Using templates

Using metrics

logfilegen's Issues

[Feature Request] - add `DESTDIR` support to install

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Packaging for Linux distribution. In package build environment make is called with make install DESTDIR=[...].

Describe the solution you'd like

make DESTDIR support. Like https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/DESTDIR.html

Describe alternatives you've considered

Patch the makefile in the package, or hijack PREFIX

Add an installation guide

Hello,

We just started to use your application and installed it on Ubuntu 22.04. Installation guide may be very helpfully.

# Ubuntu 22.04

# Prerequisites
sudo apt update
sudo apt install git make g++

# Get sources
git clone https://github.com/psemiletov/logfilegen.git
cd logfilegen

# Install
make
sudo make install

# Check
logfilegen --version

Will check also how to install it on RPM based distributive and will provide an update.

Thanks!