FAM, the File Alteration Monitor, provides an API which applications can
use to be notified when specific files or directories are changed.
from alek@, with minor tweaks by me
feedback and ok espie@ martynas@
Logpp is a tool for preprocessing event logs and feeding relevant
information to other programs for storing or in-depth analysis.
During its work, logpp reads lines appended to input files (like tail(1)
in -f mode), matches the lines with patterns (e.g., regular
expressions), converts matching lines according to given templates, and
writes the results to given destinations.
Logpp supports multi-line matching and several types of output
destinations like regular files, FIFOs, external programs, and the
system logger.Therefore, logpp can act as a filter in front of the
more complex event log analysis system and increase the system's
performance by weeding out irrelevant log data; it can work as a syslog
gateway between the system logger and the application that doesn't use
syslog(3); it can convert multiline log messages to shorter single
line messages, and accomplish other log pre-processing tasks.
ok sturm@ jasper@
- tabled can now listen on a local fifo and on a network socket
- a command line client, tablec, has been added to speak to a tabled daemon
over the net
- network exchange can be protected by a secret hash
File::Which was created to be able to get the paths to executable
programs on systems under which the `which' program wasn't implemented
in the shell.
ok msf@
* improved the daemonization code.
* changed Sys::Syslog::openlog() options from 'cons,pid' to 'pid'.
* starting from this version, 'logonly' action has an optional parameter.
From maintainer, Okan Demirmem <okan@demirmen.com>
relevant changes:
13/02/2007 - 2.75
- OpenBSD sensors missed includes (Constantine A. Murenin)
11/02/2007 - 2.74
- symon can be told what local interface to send data from (Henning Brauer)
- removed typos in client/SymuxClient.pm (Sandeep Kr Sangwan)
- OpenBSD sm_sensor upgrade to sensor_dev (Constantine A. Murenin)
- symon network protocol version bumped to allow stream arguments upto 63
characters.