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 It's OK for a small network or small number of devices but it doesn't scale well. Having said that, it's better than nothing and costs $0 (which exactly why I used it in the first place). Cheers, James.