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PROGRAM:

NAME


lwatch — syntax highlighting for syslog/syslog-ng file

SYNOPSIS


lwatch [-C filename] [--config filename] [-i filename] [--input filename] [-o
filename] [--output filename] [-sdOhv] [--show-unparsed] [--daemon] [--omit-rc]
[--help]

DESCRIPTION


Lwatch is a log colorizer. It reads syslog/syslog-ng data from named fifo or from stdin
and displays colored logs into stdout.

Lwatch is highly user-customizable. It reads configuration data from the file
/etc/lwatch/lwatch.conf or (if given) from the file provided with option -C

The way it works is simple. It reads a line from input (build-in default is
/var/lib/lwatch/syslog.fifo), splits it into four parts: date, hostname, service name
(with PID, if available) and real message. Each part has its own default color. You can
redefine them in configuration file. Default colors as the same as in loco(1) [see:
http://www.zjuul.net/~jules/loco/]. But lwatch is not only a static log colorizer. It is
something more. It can colorize your logs any way you wish. You are able to set a new
color for any part (date, host, service, message) using regexp based patterns.

COMMAND LINE OPTIONS


Lwatch accepts some command line options. Command line options have precedence over values
from configuration file.

-C filename

--config filename
read config from filename instead of /etc/lwatch/lwatch.conf

-i filename

--input filename
read data from named fifo filename instead of /var/lib/lwatch/syslog.fifo

-o filename

--output filename
write colored logs to filename instead stdout

-s

--show-unparsed
show unparsed lines like `last message repeated 5 times' or `--- MARK ---'

-d

--daemon run as daemon, detach from control terminal, move to background

-O

--omit-rc do not read values from config file

-h

--help show help about runtime option

-v

--version show version and copyright notices

RUNNING


Preferred way to run lwatch is to read syslog messages from named fifo or from standard
input.

If you use syslog you really want to read messages from named fifo. To do it, put a line:

*.* |/var/lib/lwatch/syslog.fifo

in your syslog.conf. Create appropriate fifo and restart syslog, then run lwatch. You can
also run lwatch before starting syslog. If you don't know how to create named fifo see
mknod(1) for details.

Remember:

· fifo must exist

· proper name must be put in /etc/lwatch/lwatch.conf or given with -i command line
option

In syslog-ng you can run lwatch directly from syslog, i.e.:

log { source(src); destination(console_all);};
destination console_all {program("/usr/bin/lwatch -i- -o/dev/tty11"); };

Lwatch does not support reading from regular files. If you really need this functionality
use following command:

tail -f /path/to/filename | /usr/bin/lwatch -i-
It could be subject to change in the future.

RESOURCES


· http://sf.net/projects/lwatch

· http://freshmeat.net/projects/lwatch/

COPYRIGHT


This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Regular expression support is provided by the PCRE library package, which is open source
software, written by Philip Hazel, and copyright by the University of Cambridge, England.
This library is available at: ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/

NOTE FROM AUTHOR


I have written this tool for my own needs because perl tools, however flexible, eated a
lot of memory and CPU. I have found it useful and I share it with the Open Source
Community. But still, developing of this software is driven by my own needs. So, you could
expect next release in a year or two ;)

It would be really nice if you could find some time and spare it for rating this project
on FreshMeat (see RESOURCES). Comments are welcome too. I cannot promise that I will add
new features to lwatch immediately but any positive feedback will raise my motivation
level up.

Thank you in advance for your time.

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