>>> josh at trutwins.homeip.net 10/28/04 10:01PM >>>
>I'm trying to do something very simple in swatch (3.1.1) and it's making
>me angry.

I'm not a swatch user (yet) so I can't comment on that.

>I want to watch a log in one file and based on a regex dump the same
>lines to another file (maybe there's a better tool than swatch?)

I don't know how complex your regex is, but Syslog-ng may be able
to select on it and dump the log records directly to the new log file.
I guess that assumes that you are logging to syslog, and not directly
to the file.

Bruce



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