Xlogmaster 1.6.0 - tool to monitor system status and logfiles

["Georg C. F. Greve" <greve gnu org>]

The Xlogmaster is a X11/GTK+ based program that allows easy and
powerful monitoring of your system. It allows reading logfiles,
status-giving devices (like the /proc devices) and running programs to 
gather information about anything the user desires. This input may
then be translated by means of a user-defined plugin in order to be
more understandable for the user. 

The output may then be processed with various filters that allow
anything from high-/lowlighting to starting a program that shuts down
your computer in case of a security breach.

It is a very useful tool for all programmers, system administrators,
control freaks or people who just like to know exactly what's going on
on their system.


_CHANGES_:
* Complete "Customize" Menu rewrite
* Plugin support
* GTK+ 1.2.0 compliant
* The EXEC lines now allow pipes...
* Keyboard accelerators for entries (keys '1'-'0' without mods, with
                CTRL, with ALT & with CTRL+ALT)
* Keyboard accelerators for menu
* the Xlogmaster now evaluates the following environment variables:
        XLM_HOME - the directory where the main configuration resides
        XLM_LIB  - the directory where the Xlogmaster expects the sound
                        scripts subdirectories
        XLM_DB   - the directory where the database is located
        XLM_USER_DB - location of the users private database
* support for a system wide entry database
* support for personal entry database
* the Xlogmaster now catches logfile rotation
* a new mode - the "RUN" mode that allows execution of any program to
  gather information about the system and evaluate it's stdout and
  stderr.


_Features_:
- System wide and private database allow for easy reconfiguration and
  better integration into distributions
- Filters to raise/lower/hide lines
- Filters to alert/notify/uniconify/execute on lines in logfiles (even
  background ones)
- Audio notification for alert/notify/uniconify
- TAIL mode (basically emulating a "tail -f file")
- CAT mode (basically emulating a "cat file" in reglar intervals)
- RUN mode (running a program and processing it's stdout)
- Plugin to translate / process output in any desired way
- scrolling back in the logs with a scrollbar (size of buffer
  adjustable by user)
- all defaults can be overridden by commandline
- completely menu driven, fully customizable
- style can be custom modified to perfectly blend in with your desktop
- powerful matching due to REGEX patterns


_Primary Site_:
        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/xlogmaster/


_Secondary Site(s)_:
        http://www.fusebox.hanse.de/xlogmaster/
        http://porter.desy.de/~greve/xlogmaster/


_Homepage_:
        http://www.gnu.org/software/xlogmaster/xlogmaster.html


_Requirements_:
- X11 Window System
- C++ compiler
- GTK+ Toolkit Version >= 1.2.1


_Platforms_:
- AIX 4.1.5
- Digital UNIX 3.2c
- FreeBSD
- GNU/Linux
- HP-UX
- Irix5.3 (MIPS R4000)
- Irix 6.2 (MIPS R5000)
- Solaris
- SunOS 4.1.1
- x86 BSDI 3.0

(these are the tested ones - there is no real reason why the
xlogmaster shouldn't compile on all Unix platforms, though)

-- 
Georg C. F. Greve <greve@gnu.org>
"Brave GNU World", the monthly GNU column
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