Logfmon monitors a set of log files and processes
messages based on a set of regexps. When a message
matches, a command may be executed or the message
may be ignored. Messages that are unmatched are
batched together and emailed every so often.
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This release has a number of new features, including support for the FAM file monitor for Linux, a GNU makefile for easier building on Linux, an option to limit the number of simultaneous threads, two new actions, "write" and "write-append", to send log entries or contexts to a file, FIFO, etc., an "autoappend" shortcut keyword for opening contexts, and a "clear" action to empty contexts without removing them. The format of the log entry is now configurable, so logfmon may be used for non-syslog log files.
This release is mainly code cleanup and internal changes to make the program more robust. It now uses the queue(3) macros instead of roll-your-own linked lists, and is generally tidier.
This version adds the ability to cache positions in log files to avoid rereading already processed messages on restart, a pid file, and some fixes to work on FreeBSD 5.3.
