Installation for development of Log Agent

Log Agent is an experimental, proof of concept, log processor. Log Agent scans each line of a log file for an explicit string, finds the IP address and in the log line and applies an designated action.

It provides a logagent command line program.

Installing from source

Required software

1. Git (to clone the cold repository on GitHub)
2. Deno >= 2.2

Compiling LogAgent

Deno is used to compile the TypeScript and dependent JavaScript files into an executable.

1. Use Deno’s task to build project

deno task build

This will provide the logagent command in the “bin” folder in your repository directory.

You can check to make sure logagent works for your system. The compiled version is self contain and can be copied someplace in your path.

Manual install on POSIX

mkdir -p $HOME/bin
export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
cp bin/logagent $HOME/bin/
export MANPATH="$MANPATH:$HOME/man"
cp -vR man $HOME/

Manual install for Windows via Powershell

mkdir $HOME/bin
$PATH = [Environment]::GetEnvironmentVariable("PATH")
[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("PATH", "$PATH;$HOME/bin")
copy ./bin/logagent.exe $HOME/bin/