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I am using a Motorola SBG6580 Cable Modem Gateway and have been trying to find information on how to access its log files. I can log into it and look at them but I need to automatically load them onto a computer on the local area network that is running Ubuntu and save them for parsing and automated analysis. Unable to find anything on the net regarding this.
Thanks for the tip. I'm researching cron jobs now and will see if I can get my system to access the actual file in the router. One issue is that the router displays the log not as a file but as a list but I guess it is html so I should be able to grab it somehow and parse it. I'll get back to you and let you know if I'm able to get this to work.
your going to learn a very exciting set of commands doing this, commands like grep, pipe, cat... it'll all come down to a tidy one line command im sure...
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