A better way will be to find out what syslog category these logs come 
out as, and direct them to a named pipe. Have the other program read 
from that pipe.

RTFM syslog.conf

            Shachar

Omer Zak wrote:

>On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Amichai Rotman wrote:
>
>>I have a an AVM Fritz ISDN card installed. The software that came on the disk
>>is only for that other OS.
>>
>>One of the features on said software is a little window popping up every time
>>there's an incoming call stating the name (if presentin address book) an
>>number of caller, in other words: CallerID.
>>
>>While looking for something on my box (MDK 8.1) in my /var/log/messages file,
>>I noticed a line for each incoming call.
>>
>>Is there a Linux prog to do what the other OS does? The infois in there...
>>
>
>It should be quite simple to put together a small Perl/Tk or Python/Tk
>script, which eats from tail -f /var/log/messages, greps for the relevant
>lines and pops up&updates a small window for each relevant line.
>
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