Hi all,

  [ This mail goes to several persons: the sysops of tsx-11.mit.edu and of 
  sunsite.unc.edu, to the LSM maintainers, and to the moderators of 
  c.o.l.announce. So it's a bit unpersonal.. ]
  
I recently uploaded xwatch-2.11.tar.gz to sunsite and tsx-11, a new version of 
my watchdog program for logfiles under X. What the program does, is that it 
just sits there and lets you see what new texts arrive on your logfiles. The 
advantage of xwatch over, say an rxvt window with a "tail -f" running in it, 
is: 
    - XWatch lets you define colors for the different shown files. E.g., you 
    might want to let /var/log/auth messages (about wrong passwords etc.) be 
    shown in red. Also, XWatch lets you define colors by message content, so 
    you might have all lines with "error" in them in bright red, if you chose 
    so. 
    - XWatch won't display binary files, so even if you start it as "xwatch 
    /var/adm/*" it won't try to dump the file "utmp" (if you have one there).
    - XWatch can suppress the display of some messages, when you want that. 
    E.g., "Too much work at interrupt" is a message that I have suppressed, it 
    just tells me that the NFS is somewhat crowded and that doesn't further 
    interest me.
    - XWatch has lots of parameters that can be configured via an application 
    defaults file that are specific for a watcher. E.g., i have "*border: 0" 
    in my file, which starts XWatch without a border. That's handy under fvwm; 
    because, fvwm doesn't even know that XWatch is there. The XWatch window 
    just becomes part of the root window.
    
What's new:
    - Bugfix. I must've been braindead when releasing 2.08.

What was previously new: 
    - I fixed an error message about the RGB database file, the old message
    was not too helpful (to say the least).
    - All colors are now specified by a name, instead of the old R/G/B method.
    - XWatch now should also run on Sun's. Sun's realloc() function doesn't 
    handle a 0-pointer as first argument, so on Sun's, the program used to 
    coredump. Should be fixed now.
    - The resources and commandline flags now have -geometry, -bg and -fg. 
    More of a 'standard' thing to do.
    
Anyway, if you're interested, get the archive and see for yourself. The 
primary ftp site is (still) ftp.icce.rug.nl/pub/unix, and you can also get the 
archive from sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming or from 
tsx-11.mit.edu:/incoming. I guess that the sysops there will move things to 
their right places. 

For completeness, the LSM entry follows:
