I'm looking for a Unix log monitoring script that is functional and
straightforward to configure.
(I've just wasted an afternoon with the latest version of 'swatch' that I
can find, from April 2013. Its configuration seems so brittle and hard to
debug and I don't really have the time to dig deeper into its byzantine
"create a Perl script on the fly" behaviour to understand why my attempt at
a simple configuration generates errors like [sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF
while looking for matching `"'])
I have a number of different log files each which may report different
things of interest to me, so I'm ideally looking for a tool that can be
configured with multiple configuration files (e.g. one per log file). But I
don't really want to have to manage many different services/running daemons
in order to do that (SEC - Simple Event Correlator - may be able to do this,
but the online tutorial makes configuring it look very complicated.)
I'm not really looking for a tool as complex and powerful as Splunk or
greylog, either. Something that can watch a log file, match a pattern, and
execute a command is all I need right now.
James.
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