Re: [monit] Showing context for file changes

[Martin Pala]

Thanks for recommendation, we'll most probably add something like this.

Martin

On Aug 7, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Pavel Shevaev wrote:

> Folks, monit is a great tool for watching for file content changes,
> kudos to the author of this feature ;)
> What I'm a bit missing is the possibility to show some context around
> the changed lines, just like grep does with -A, -B, -C options.
>
> It would be really cool to have such stuff in monit as well, e.g:
>
> check file some.log with path /tmp/some.log
> if match "\[ERR\]" with context 3 then alert
> if match "\[WRN\]" with context after 2 then alert
>
> I don't know the internals of monit well, so there is no patch from me
> only the idea :)
>
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> Best regards, Pavel
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