Many, many thanks. The hpcloud/tail hit the spot exactly, along with using timer.AfterFunc() along with judicious use of <timervar>.Stop() calls to turn on and off audible alarms. That was just the help I needed! again, Many thanks!
murf On Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 12:02:46 PM UTC-7 Amnon wrote: > What to do depends on the platform. > But there are quite a few examples around. > > https://github.com/hpcloud/tail > https://github.com/papertrail/go-tail > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10135738/reading-log-files-as-theyre-updated-in-go > > etc... > > On Thursday, 18 February 2021 at 18:50:43 UTC Steve Murphy wrote: > >> I'm having a hard time finding some tools in GO to follow log files and >> make real-time commentary about stuff like alerting about outages now >> underway, and making alerts over things that *should* happen by now but >> weren't, and such-like. >> >> Any advice? I'm pretty sure I saw an article or two some months ago, but >> now nothing shows up in my search engine. >> >> Many thanks >> >> murf >> >> -- >> >> Steve Murphy >> ParseTree Corporation >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/780cb75d-8b1c-48b4-bf56-84362aa1cf94n%40googlegroups.com.