Log Minion

Log Minion [or minion for short] is a nifty little perl script that I wrote to help get data into syslog from sources that otherwise do not speak syslog.

Minon's job is to watch log files on the filesystem and send their contents to a syslog server [either local or remote] as they are updated. He's a helpful little bugger.

And since this is perl, I thought, "why not throw in some regex support?" So if you're so inclined, you can tell minion to only send lines that match a certain pattern of your choosing.

Features:

• runs on any Posix platform with Perl 5.005+ and File::Tail
• capable of tailing multiple files simultaneously using a threaded algorithm
• daemonizes itself on startup and can be run from a startup script
• full regular expression support for pre-filtering logs before sending them
• log levels, facility and application name are configurable

Screenshot:

Download Log Minion 1.1.1   released on 7-25-06

Minion is licensed under the Open Source Artistic License
Copyright 2006 Joe Reeves