Log-o-Matic
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For installation instructions, please read INSTALL, in this directory.

Log-o-Matic is used to launch server processes such as Apache or Tomcat,
and automatically open a text window for each log file created by the
programme.

Essentially, I created Log-o-Matic to solve a problem I had: As a web
developer, I find myself restarting Apache and Tomcat a lot. Whenever I
restart Apache or Tomcat, I have to go to each xterm I have open, and
"tail -f" a particular log file afresh, just so I could watch what
was happening in each corner of the server as I was debuggin my
web application. This gets irritating.

Log-o-Matic solves the problem by providing an auto-tailing text view of
each log file created by a server process.

You have to write a configuration file to tell Log-o-Matic about your server
process: how to start it, how to stop it, what log files it generates, etc.
See the sample .watchlog files in the wl-conf-samples directory of this
distribution, and base your own .watchlog files on those.

If you launch Log-o-Matic from the command line, follow the log-o-matic command
with the pathname of a .lom configuration file that you have created,
and Log-o-Matic will automatically load that file. Otherwise, you can use
the "Open" button on the toolbar to browse the filesystem to choose
a .lom configuration file that way.

The Log-o-Matic user interface is purposely minimal. There is generally
only one way to perform each of Log-o-Matic's actions using the user
interface. I did not even provide an exit button, because your window 
manager provides one, and Log-o-Matic knows about it. 

I hope you enjoy using Log-o-Matic as much as I enjoyed writing it.

-Manni Wood, manniwood@yahoo.com

