.messages parser ...

[Simons, Rick]

Can someone with more knowledge of what can possibly be written to .messages
advise if the following are accurate, i'm worried about nabbing entries with
the same words that are for different situations ...


egrep -c 'user $username : testing' file
total hosts scanned by $username

hosts successfully scanned for at least 1 vuln/service:
egrep -c 'Finished' file

hosts that were scanned, but found dead:
egrep -c 'dead' file