ABOUT:

This simple program watches the syslog's or metalog's log file and pops up the 
window whenever the new message comes. You can specify the file to watch and
a regular expression for parsing the log line, so you can watch other than log
files too.

I just wrote it for myself cause I like to know what's goin on with my machine 
and I thought that it might be useful for someone else too.

Thanks to Konstantin Sobolev and his KLogView for inspiration and a few lines of 
code ;)


INSTALATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Note that you need automake 1.6 or newer to install this!
To install MetaMonitor do:
<unpack metamonitor>
cd metamonitor/
make -f admin/Makefile.common
./configure
make
make install (as root)

Read the INSTALL file for detailed installation instructions.


COMMUNICATION WITH METAMONITOR VIA DCOP:

You can send messages to MetaMonitor using dcop and the 'addMessage' command.
MetaMonitor's DCOP interface looks like this metamonitor-<pid> so you need to know 
it's pid before you 'talk' to it. You can just type:

dcop metamonitor-`dcop | grep metamonitor | awk -F- '{print $2}'` metamonitor addMessage 'sender' 'text'

Of course you can change the 'sender' and 'text' :)
This should work on single instance of MetaMonitor. If you're using multiple instances, you should modify 
this line so it can specify which DCOP listener you mean.
