We can monitor system logs with following free/open source tools:
1. "swatch" is a log file monitoring tool written in Perl.
home page : http://sourceforge.net/projects/swatch/
Installation notes on ubuntu :http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1035589
swatch also mentioned in Professional Red Hat Enterprise
2. check_logfiles : a nagios plugin to monintor system log files
home page : http://www.consol.com/opensource/nagios/check-logfiles
Monday, June 8, 2009
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