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diff --git a/lognotify.rb b/lognotify.rb index 61ea27c..fc96d7d 100755 --- a/lognotify.rb +++ b/lognotify.rb @@ -2,10 +2,26 @@ # # lognotify.rb # http://github.com/omp/lognotify +# Retrieve new lines from remote log files over SSH. # # Copyright 2010 David Vazgenovich Shakaryan <dvshakaryan@gmail.com> # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3. # See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt for the full license text. +# +# To use, create a configuration file, such as ~/.config/lognotify/identifier, +# with the following settings: +# +# ssh_hostname = ... Hostname of SSH server. +# log_path = ... Path of log file on server. +# +# Afterwards, simply run the script with the identifier as an arugment: +# +# lognotify.rb identifier +# +# During the initial run, a cache file will be created and all lines will be +# retrieved. On any subsequent runs, only new lines will be retrieved and +# outputted, as well as appended to the cache file, which should be identical +# to the log file on the server. require 'ftools' |