Growl for SoftRAID and other apps that use system.log

Mar 01, '07 07:30:02AM

Contributed by: WinUser

I use SoftRAID for mirroring (part of my backup scheme for my PowerBook), but was missing some notifications on missing or out-of-sync disks. Since SoftRAID reports changes of disk status in system.log, I wrote an AppleScript that reads the system.log and filters out SoftRAID messages, displaying them via Growl.

This can also be used for other applications that report things to system.log, or even to Growl all system.log messages. You can set the filter for the syslog messages, the amount of time to look back in the system.log, and other things like that. Basic usage instructions are in the script.

[robg adds: I haven't tested this one.]

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