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Email on log event

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  • 25-10-2007 11:07am
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    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭


    Morning all,

    I have a log file on a server (basically a text file). Does anyone know of a programme that can monitor this file and when a given string is written to it, send an email to the admin?

    Thanks


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    Ginger
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    What application is producing the log file???


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    Cantab.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭Cantab.


    irlrobins wrote: »
    Morning all,

    I have a log file on a server (basically a text file). Does anyone know of a programme that can monitor this file and when a given string is written to it, send an email to the admin?

    Thanks

    Why don't you just write a cron job? Perl or PHP should do the trick very easily. Doesn't seem that difficult.


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    irlrobins
    Registered Users Posts: 7,544 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    Ginger wrote: »
    What application is producing the log file???
    Oracle Application Server
    Cantab. wrote: »
    Why don't you just write a cron job? Perl or PHP should do the trick very easily. Doesn't seem that difficult.
    Could do but I want something that the client can find easy to use and maintain. So ideally something with a GUI. I have a VBS that will do the trick but i'd like to keep it as simple as possible...


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    amen
    Registered Users Posts: 2,781 ✭✭✭amen


    there is a file watched componet in C# you could use to monitor the file contents.

    put a gui around it and give to the client

    or use the dos find command
    you could put it in batch file and put an icon the desktop for the user


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