Log Notifier

Watches for new data in your log files and displays this data either via Notification Center or Growl.

Your log files don't need to exist when you start log-notifier, it will automatically detect and monitor new files provided they match the --file-pattern option.

Installation

You can install log-notifier from Homebrew using:

$ brew tap nocturnalfrog/tap
$ brew install log-notifier

Dependencies

(Don't worry about the required dependencies, Homebrew will install them for you.) ###Required:

• fswatch is used for detecting new files.
• terminal-notifier is required to display notifications in Notification Center.

###Optional:

• growlnotify is required if you want the option for the notifications to be displayed by Growl (see the --growl under options). You must install Growl on your own. You can learn more about Growl and see installation instructions at growl.info.

Usage

Usage: log-notifier [-h] [-g] [-p file_pattern] path_to_folder(s)

Options:
    -h, --help            Show this message.
    -g, --growl           Use Growl instead of Notification Center for notifications.
    -p, --file-pattern    Use a specific file pattern to monitor. (defaults to '*.log')

Example Usage

Receive notifications via Notification Center when new lines are added to any files corresponding to the *.log pattern in the specified folder:

$ log-notifier /path/to/log/folder/

Receive notifications via Growl when new lines are added to the error.log in the /path/to/log/folder/ folder:

$ log-notifier --growl --file-pattern "error.log" /path/to/log/folder/

Receive notifications via Growl when new lines are added to *.log files in any /path/to/vhosts/*/log/ folder:

$ log-notifier --growl  /path/to/vhosts/*/log/

Don't like Homebrew? That's okay.

Included in the repo is a makefile that allows you to install/uninstall without Homebrew. (Please note that you will have to install the required dependencies manually.)

$ make install
$ make uninstall