<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> There is a file in the nagiosplug contrib called check_log2.pl. It makes a temporary file with the byte offset from the last check so it starts the new check at the old offset. For the new lines, it does regular expression matching. [hmann@sirius contrib]$ perl ./check_log2.pl -h check_log2.pl (nagios-plugins 1.4) 1.1 The nagios plugins come with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of the plugins under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. Scan arbitrary log files for regular expression matches. Usage: check_log2.pl -l <log_file> -s <log_seek_file> -p <pattern> [-n <negpattern>] Usage: check_log2.pl [ -v | --version ] Usage: check_log2.pl [ -h | --help ] -l, --logfile=<logfile> The log file to be scanned -s, --seekfile=<seekfile> The temporary file to store the seek position of the last scan -p, --pattern=<pattern> The regular expression to scan for in the log file -n, --negpattern=<negpattern> The regular expression to skip in the log file Cheers, - Harper Harper Mann Groundwork Open Source Solutions 510-599-2075 (cell) Julie S. Lin wrote: <blockquote cite="mid43A2F717.7040308@myvest.com" type="cite">Hi All, Does anyone here know if there's a plug in to nagios that will allow monitoring of syslogs and or integrates monitoring done via scripts? I'd like to integrate my monitoring. --jsl ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click">http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637&alloc_id=16865&op=click</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote> </body> </html>