On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 12:16:27AM +0000, Ronan Waide wrote:
> On March 19, kevin at suberic.net said:
> > ok, i've written a little perl script that essentially tails a group of
> > files, and strips out unwanted lines and spits them to an irc channel.
> > it runs as a normal irc user, not as a service.
> >
> > along with it i've written an x-chat script that pops up a warning box
> > (or runs some command) if it sees something you've said you want to
> > know about.
> This sounds kinda like swatch:
>http://www.oit.ucsb.edu/~eta/swatch/
yes, that's another alternative. but swatch runs a command directly so
each person monitoring a log file would need to run it. this allows any
interested people to view log files. that group of people is configured
by joining an irc channel (or not joining it).
kevin
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