#!/usr/bin/env python #-*- coding: utf-8 -*- # # Author: Andreas Büsching # # logger # # Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 # Andreas Büsching # # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version # 2.1 as published by the Free Software Foundation. # # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # Lesser General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA # 02110-1301 USA import os import notifier def tail_minus_f( logfile ): new_size = os.stat( logfile.name )[ 6 ] if new_size > logfile.tell(): buffer = logfile.read( 65536 ) if buffer: print buffer, return True if __name__ == '__main__': notifier.init() log = open( '/var/log/messages', 'rb' ) log.seek( os.stat( '/var/log/messages' )[ 6 ] ) notifier.timer_add( 100, notifier.Callback( tail_minus_f, log ) ) notifier.loop()