IRC Logs

Some notes on logs for IRC meetings.

Generating HTML Logs

(add a link here to a perl script... irc2html...)

Anonomising logs

Clients such as IRSSI (see IrssiHowTo) can be set up to log but they log IP addresses of remoted users so to anonomise the logs do this:

  
    $ sed -i 's/\[[^]]*@[^]]*\]/[anon@localhost]/g' filename
  

Or in vim:

  
    :1,$s/\[[^]]*@[^]]*\]/[anon@localhost]/g
  

See also: IrssiHowTo#Anonomising_Logging

-- ChrisC - 21 Mar 2004