On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 01:33:07PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Hi, > > Before I try to reinvent the wheel, I'd like to hear are there commonly > used utilities that process syslog logs (e.g. /var/log/messages), grep > them for some regex and notify configured e-mail addresses, in real time > (as messages arrive)? I imagine something like that would either do a > "tail -f" on log files or listen as a syslog filter.
This appears to resemble something of interest: freebeast(6.3-S)[18] cat /usr/ports/security//swatch/pkg-descr SWATCH - The Simple WATCHer and filter Swatch is designed to monitor system activity. Swatch requires a configuration file which contains pattern(s) to look for and action(s) to do when each pattern is found. WWW: http://swatch.sourceforge.net/ freebeast(6.3-S)[19] Caveat: I've not used it, though I've seen references to it. Peace, david -- David H. Wolfskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] I submit that "conspiracy" would be an appropriate collective noun for cats. See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.
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