On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Michael Biebl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I've been using log2mail to monitor log files in real-time and send > emails when certain messages matched given patterns. > > Unfortunately this useful tool has been removed from the Debian > archive, so I was looking for alternatives but didn't really find one. > > An idea that came to mind was, to use rsyslog to monitor arbitrary log > files (via imfile), use its powerful message processing engine to do > the matching and send notifications via ommail. > The log files in need to monitor are created by the application itself > and unfortunately can't be easily switched to use syslog > > Do you think this is a sensible approach or do you propose alternatives? > yes, this sounds like a good idea. It also comes at the right time, as I am preparing to do a major re-write of imfile. Among others, it will work based on inotify (if available) and be able to monitor directories for newly created files (at least that's the plan). > I don't think ommail is flexible enough to allow more advanced > features that log2mail provides [2] like templating, resendtime or > sendtime, or is there? > Not yet, but we could gradually move these in. Sounds like they make a lot of sense. A problem may be versions. This of course is all brand-new stuff, so it would need to go into the -devel (7.5). Would that still help you? On the implementation side, I can probably hope to have around one day per week to work on that project (that's roughly what I have planned for the imfile rewrite) - so it's not an ultra-immediate thing... Rainer > > Michael > > > > [1] http://people.debian.org/~enrico/log2mail/ > [2] http://people.debian.org/~enrico/log2mail/log2mail.conf_manpage.html > > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
