[SOLVED] Use "Tail -f" with log file to sound error on predefined messages

Southpaw94 · 06-18-2013, 10:02 PM

Is it at all possible to trigger a sound event from ssh? I would think if grep could be used in junction tail -f, but I'm not sure how to trigger a sound event in a linux environment using such. The client computer on which I would want the event to sound/display runs Puppy Linux, and is to ssh into a server machine, running Ubuntu 12.10 amd64.

My experience is limited, but I'm willing to learn.

I basically have no experience in creating script files like .sh to automate tasks.

Thank you.
Geoffrey

unSpawn · 06-19-2013, 01:43 AM

Unless wheel re-inventing is the name of the game I suggest you search your distros repos and Freecode, Sourceforge, Savannah.nongnu because I'm pretty sure something like that, or at least a tail implementation that runs external applications, has been cobbled up before. BASH code could look something like

Code:

_doSignal() { env DISPLAY=":0.0" /path/to/binary /path/to/soundfile &
}
tailf /some/path/to/logfile | while read ITEM; do
 [ if condition match ] && _doSignal
done

Southpaw94 · 06-20-2013, 11:55 AM

Awww, but re-inventing the wheel is so much fun...

But really, thank you. That actually helps out a lot. Definitely saving this.