HELP help about monitoring a log file

[rushi]

 

hi

 

i m monitoring a customized log file which is dynamically created for a perticular message ...

 

 

it gives me alert every time after it has found the matter once in the log file becuase agian it starts scanning a file every time from starting offset

 

 

is there anything that i can save the offset and i can start only searching after the offset... if it is there what is the changes that i need to make let me know

 

please its urgent

 

if i need to change the code of the file which code is to be changed please let me know i will do that...

 

 

 

 

my monitrc is like below

 

check file heartbeat with path /var/log/ha-log
       if match 'IPaddr' then alert

 

 

so what are the changes i need to do please let me know