Listen to your log files

[Paul Lussier]

Mark Ellison <ellison at ieee.org> writes:

> I am interested in hearing from folks on this list- Is the Log4JFugue
> tool useful on an ongoing regular basis?  Or, is it more of a novelty
> item?

I think it entirely depends upon the environment in which it's used.
This isn't a new idea, I remember using something 10-12 years ago which
would allow you to do something similar.  You run this tool over
something like /var/log/messages or whatever, and using perl regexps it
would play certain sounds of your choosing.  We had failed sudo and root
access play a flushing toilet sound :)

If you're a small group and need to be monitoring security or watching
for certain transient events, having something like this play in the
background can be helpful, since you don't need to do anything. You'll
"hear" an event and instantly know you need to interupt what you're
doing and address is.

I can certainly see, however, where if could be overly annoying and
unhelpful if your filters are not well designed.  You'll either hear too
much or not enough, or if certain events happen too often, you'll tune
out the sounds and they'll become background noise that you ignore.

--
Paul