Tailpipe
Synopsis
Tail a file and trigger an action if a new line occurs. Currently only mailing the new line somewhere is supported. Work in progress, there may be more to come...
Config
Configuration file examples can be found in the conf folder.
This is how a mail config looks like:
file_to_watch = "/tmp/tailpipe_test.log"
regex_filter = "(?i)(error|fail|fatal)"
action = "mail"
[mail]
host = "bear.local"
port = 1025
user = "test_user"
pass = "none"
encryption = "none" # "none", "ssl", "tls"
addr_from = "[email protected]"
addr_to = ["[email protected]"]
subject = "Error on {{.Host}}"
template = """
Date:
{{.Date}}
Message:
{{.Text}}
{{if .TailError}}
There was a tail error:
{{.TailError}}
{{end}}
"""
Help
watch a text file for changes and do something with the latest line
Arguments:
[<config-file>] configuration file
Flags:
-h, --help Show context-sensitive help.
-d, --debug debug mode
-V, --version-flag display version
