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XWATCH 2.09
Logfile watcher for X
Karel Kubat (karel@icce.rug.nl)
Maintained by Frank Brokken (frank@icce.rug.nl)
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Xwatch is a small program that I wrote to monitor logfiles and to see any
changes _directly_ (instead of having to read all the logs after a breakin
or a crash). Xwatch is simply started with a few file arguments, and any
information that appears on the files is displayed. With a slider you can
see past information; i.e., lines that scroll in xwatch's window.
To obtain xwatch, ftp to ftp.icce.rug.nl and get the file
xwatch-2.09.tar.gz from the directory /pub/unix. Unpack the archive and
change-dir to xwatch/doc. Then read the docs. They are provided in three
formats:
- xwatch.html - HTML format, view with your favorite WWW browser;
- xwatch.tex - LaTeX format, latex it and print it;
- xwatch.txt - plain ascii, the ugliest, but a poor-man's solution.
The directory doc furthermore contains xwatch.dm, the sourcefile from
which the above are created. (If you want to know how that doc file is
organized, get dom from the same site, ftp.icce.rug.nl:/pub/unix).
I reserve the copyright to xwatch. If you have useful additions, please
mail the maintainer Frank Brokken (frank@icce.rug.nl) with your requests
or source diffs and let him make a new distribution. Don't hack the
sources and redistribute your own: we at the ICCE hate encountering
`our' programs with a version number that I don't even know of.
However, you are permitted to distribute xwatch, provided that you (a)
distribute it with the full sources, and (b) that you leave this
documentation and copyright notice intact.
Copyright policy:
MegaHard (who wants a Microsoft?)
PostcardWare (send me a postcard from abroad if you like it)
but really: GPL, see the file COPYING.
Karel Kubat
karel@icce.rug.nl