#!/bin/csh

#
# boomboat - written by Kevin P. Inscoe (kevin at inscoe dot org)
#
# excutes a tail -f on logfiles specified in the LOGTAB file and pipes the
# output to logger which get's them (by default) into the user.log for processing
# by Swatch on the central syslog host.
#

# Variables
set LOGTAB=/usr/local/admin/etc/boomboattab

foreach logfile (`/bin/cat $LOGTAB`)
        set fn=`basename $logfile`
        printf "$fn\n"
        echo $logfile
# First kill the existing process if it exists...
        echo "     Killing..."
        pkill -f $fn
        echo "     Starting..."
        (nohup tail -f $logfile | logger -t $fn) &
end