This is the introduction to a list of frequently asked questions (FAQ's) about Xlogmaster with answers. This article contains a listing of the questions; subsequent articles contain the questions and answers.
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Xlogmaster is a GTK+ (see the GIMP tookit page under
http://www.gimp.org/ for more information) based program that helps you
to monitor all kinds of system activity. It allows monitoring and
background surveillance of all logfiles and devices that allow being
read by cat like the `/proc' devices. You can configure Xlogmaster graphically to take almost any action you can think of upon
certain events and it can certainly help you keeping track of everything
and increasing system security.
The current version is 1.6.2.
The source can be found via anonymous FTP at ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/ `ftp.gnu.org:/pub/gnu/'.
If you installed everything correctly the easiest ways are probably
xlogmaster --help
Other ways are to check out the homepage at
or the mailinglists
Subscription is done by sending a mail to
beta-xlogmaster-request@@gnu.org
`[email protected]'
leave the subject blank and enter `subscribe' in the body.
Subscription is done by sending a mail to
help-xlogmaster-request@@gnu.org
`[email protected]'
leave the subject blank and enter `subscribe' in the body.
Normal installation is done by unpacking the archive and then entering
it. ./configure ; make ; make install should do everything
then. The default is to install it into the `/usr/local'
structure. If you want to change that and for other configuration
options, please see ./configure --help.
This can happen on some systems (especially SunOS or old Solaris ones) --
the problem is easily fixed by using gmake instead of make.
Please send comments on these web pages to [email protected], send other questions to [email protected].
Copyright (C) 1998,1999 Georg C. F. Greve, 2012 John S. Gaythorpe - Xlogmaster is a GNU program
Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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Updated: Last modified: 12 Mar 2012