- www.logcheck.org
- sourceforge.net/projects/logcheck/
- linuxaria.com/pills/logcheck-scan-your-logs-and-warns-you – this is the nicest overview page
Dependencies and restrictions:
- logcheck depends on logtail
- logtail runs on exactly one file …
- … and only once on that file, as it keeps a sister file called logfile.offset
- improving this should actually be “easy”, e.g. keeping a sister file called logfile.offset.user
Pros:
- abstracting resp. filtering log files like /var/log/messages
- this happens “realtime” i.e. instantly
- …
Cons:
- the results get to you resp. a whole crowd via e-mail – isn’t that a little excessive regarding the resources necessary to look at the output?
- if you already have a utilty in place, that filters daily chunks of log files, this is …
- …
Ideas / inspirations taken from here:
- the output could actually go to another log file, that you may want to “logtail” or “tail -f” as to your needs
- …
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