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A trivial tool to fake log output on STDERR or STDOUT

It shuffels one of the 'systems' (emitters)
httpd, builder, fluxcomp, core, or coffeemaker
with one of the levels
DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, or FATAL
and one line from the BOFH excuses

Build

go generate
go build

generate pulls the excuses from the web and builds BOFHexcuses.go. An internet connection is required for building logFaker. Using logFaker works offline, though.

Usage

logFaker [options]
options:
    -c int
          short for -count (default 0)
    -count int
          number of generated fake lines (0 infinite) (default 0)
    -e string
          short for -emitter
    -emitter string
          use as emitter instead of changing it randomly
    -f int
          short for -freq (default 2)
    -freq int
          frequency of emitted fake lines (per second,  min. 1) (default 2)
    -stdout
          log to stdout instead of stderr

Examples of generated log lines.

2020/10/28 09:49:27 WARN|coffeemaker|halon system went off and killed the operators.
2020/10/28 09:49:27 INFO|fluxcomp|fat electrons in the lines
2020/10/28 09:49:28 INFO|coffeemaker|Chewing gum on /dev/sd3c
2020/10/28 09:49:28 INFO|builder|Stale file handle (next time use Tupperware(tm)!)
2020/10/28 09:49:29 FATAL|core|the daemons! the daemons! the terrible daemons!
2020/10/28 09:49:29 FATAL|coffeemaker|It's not plugged in.
2020/10/28 09:49:30 FATAL|builder|There isn't any problem
2020/10/28 09:49:30 INFO|fluxcomp|Hot Java has gone cold
2020/10/28 09:49:31 INFO|httpd|(l)user error
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