Swatch: The Simple Log Watcher

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Jun 13, 2010 8:03 PM EDT
Linux Magazine; By Ken Hess
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Swatch isn’t a cleverly designed watch from the 1980s but you’ll think it’s just as handy (and cleverly designed) as one. Like Logwatch, swatch is a perl script that watches your logs but swatch watches them for regular expressions that you configure. Swatch will notify you via mail or the console screen (stdout) when it matches the configured log file entries with your watchfor directives.

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Nice tool JaseP 0 823 Jun 14, 2010 12:53 PM

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