swatch
Swatch (Simple Log Watcher) is designed to monitor system
activity. Swatch started out as the "simple watchdog" for actively
monitoring log files produced by UNIX's syslog facility. It has since
evolved into a handy utility that can monitor just about any type of
log.
A typical action is echoing the matched line in a variety of
colours and formats including reverse video, bold, underline, and
normal, which swatch knows how to do internally. Other actions include
sending mail or executing an arbitrary program on the line.
Swatch is written in Perl and uses Perl regular expressions
for line matching. In order for Swatch to be useful, it requires a
configuration file which contains pattern(s) to look for and action(s)
to perform when each pattern is found.
Features include:
- Simple to configure
- Regular expression matching
- Highlighting
- Hooks
- Send e-mails based on matching log
strings
- Execute in the background
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