sm_watch: Monitoring of system log files

This is my favorite hack, in daily use here on my box. I copied the following passage from the script:

Shell program to display changes to "/var/log/messages", "/var/log/mail" and the "From:" and "Subject" lines of new mail to root and his normal user account via "root-tail" windowless on root window of your desktop and/or in a terminal via "tail" colorized with "ccze".

You will need root-tail and ccze for the script to work.

Here is a screenshot from the terminal window:



The next one shows what root-tail is doing. The text is displayed in the lower right corner.



The following is an enlarged view of the text.



This link shows what sm_watch and xsnow are doing together.

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