tcplinecombine

Privitive logging server that accepts incoming line-based messages and stores them to one compressed file.

``` host1$ tcplinecombine 0.0.0.0:1234 output.zstd -i 5 host1: ...

host2$ date | nc 192.168.0.1 1234 ^C host2$ date | nc 192.168.0.1 1234 ^C

host1: Incoming connection from 127.0.0.1:44750 finished serving 127.0.0.1:44750 Incoming connection from 127.0.0.1:44762 finished serving 127.0.0.1:44762 ^C (after waiting for 5 seconds) host1$ zstdcat output.zstd Sun Mar 5 21:05:05 CET 2023 Sun Mar 5 21:05:07 CET 2023 output.zstd : Read error (39) : premature end ```

Features

• Handling multiple simultaneous connections and interleaving incoming lines (but not bytes).
• zstd compression of output file with periodical flushes

Installation

Download a pre-built executable from Github releases or install from source code with cargo install --path . or cargo install tcplinecombine.

CLI options

<outputfile>

-l, --max-line-length <bytes>

-h, --help
  Prints help information.

See also

• fdlinecombine