logfiles

Is there a cheap way to monitor a log file like tail -f log.txt , then if something like [error] appears, execute a command? Thank you. tail -fn0 logfile | \ while read line ; do echo "$line" | grep "pattern" if [ $? = 0 ] then ... do something ... fi done I also found that you can use awk to monitor for pattern and perform some action when pattern is found: tail -fn0 logfile | awk '/pattern/ { print | "command" }' This will execute command when pattern is found in the log. Command can be any unix command including shell scripts or anything else. Ari Maniatis An even more robust approach is

I'm searching for a way to read the SQL Server 2008 log file, not to show the information, but to read the meaning of the symbols and the structure of the LOG table. I'm using DBCC LOG('my_table', 3) . Ardalan Shahgholi See my answer in this Stack Overflow post: How can I view SQL Server 2005 Transaction log file Or Use this command: Select * from ::fn_dblog(null,null) And for more information, see How Do You Decode A Simple Entry in the Transaction Log . JdMR First of all, in order to be able to read any meaningful data your database needs to be in full recovery mode. Otherwise you probably