Welcome to WOTS
WOTS is an easily configurable, flexible and hopefully useful logfile monitoring tool. If you know `swatch', it isn't all that different in concept, except that it does quite a bit more, and will do even more in the future.
Getting WOTS
Well, you already have, but in case you can't remember, sometime in the dim distant future:
http://www.hpcc.uh.edu/~tonyc/tools/
Building WOTS
See the file INSTALL in this directory.
History of WOTS
1.22:
changed the configuration a bit. Now we edit Make.config to set up location of interpreters etc. Then "make" will actually configure things, and "make install" as before (prompted by comments from Martin Paul -- easier to let the user tell us where things).
1.21:
maintenance update
1.20:
changed to Term::ANSIColor module for highlighting. experimental ~L, ~M matching in exec command.
1.19:
rewrote backreference handler for partial pattern matches
1.18:
minor bug fixes
1.17:
added a "once" option to "!", so that e.g. ping checks don't bombard you with mail if a host is unreachable for a long time.
1.16:
Tidied up some perl strict and -w slackness.
--version just gives version and dies.
Running fine with perl5.00404.
1.15:
removed a bug which manifests itself at eof() on FreeBSD
1.14:
Added ! to From lines to indicate a command to be run, stdio is piped into the pattern checker.
1.13:
Upgraded to perl5.00402 - made necessary changes