Re: ITP: log2mail - sends email if a pattern in a certain logfile is matched.

["Gerrit Pape" <pape@innominate.com>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 05:45:19PM +0100, calvin@net.uni-sb.de wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 05:27:25PM +0100, Gerrit Pape wrote:
> > log2mail sends message to a specified email address if a pattern in a
> > certain logfile is matched. 
> What is the difference/advantage to the logcheck program?
>
o runs as daemon
o notifies asap (configurable)
o prepared for use with pagers
o matches patterns in lines using regex
o high configurable:
  o mailto, patterns, buffering, ... for each seperate logfile
  o other packages can 'drop in' configfiles for their logs

Gerrit.

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