On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:27 PM, James Bensley <jwbensley@gmail.com> wrote:
On 5 February 2018 at 18:57, <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 05 Feb 2018 10:49:42 -0800, "Scott Weeks" said:
I have no knowledge of syslog-ng. Does it do the real time scrolling like I mention?
Use 'tail -f' or similar.
The only problem is that with BASH based solutions is that they are slow. They don't scale well.
Some years ago I wrote a script that would periodically (every 5 minutes by default) grep for interesting events / filter uninteresting events from the syslog file and email you the results. It's here if anyone is interested: https://null.53bits.co.uk/index.php?page=sysgrep
Last year I found the time to code something similar in perl using File::Tail , here is the outcome in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/jkougoulos/9to5tail Regards, John