Shell scriping for log management 1

[Kefx]

Hello,
Im working with a ISP and this company has a FreeBSD box that holds various dial-up logs. Lets say one of these is /var/log/connections. Keep in mind the information looks kind of like a syslog file in which it goes:
Month Day Time info

This file gets very huge and we would like to have a way to sort it by month, so if its the end of april it will dump all of the same month info into " connections.april ". Any ideas on a way to script this? I figure crontab will be involved.

Thanks.

 

[PHV]

Can you post some example lines ?

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[Kefx]

I don't have an exact one since its the weekend and but it would look something like:

May 21 19:31:52 deviod [portmaster]: connection failed from 192.168.1.1

Hope this is what you mean.

 

[PHV]

Something like this ?
grep -i "^`date +%b`" /var/log/connections >/var/log/connections.`date +%B`

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[Kefx]

This is good help. Thanks