On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 9:27 PM, James Bensley <jwbens...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 February 2018 at 18:57, <valdis.kletni...@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
