monitor a session

efisher911 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: monitor a session by Riales (Hermit) on Feb 29, 2012 at 22:52 UTC
Which part do you need help with? Emailing a message? Or determining that the server has sent an alert? For the former, I'd take a look at the Email::Send module. The latter depends on how the server is currently sending messages to your terminal...	[reply]
Re^2: monitor a session by efisher911 (Initiate) on Mar 05, 2012 at 21:02 UTC
More that the Server is sending the message to the terminal. I've seen the email scripts around.	[reply]
Re^3: monitor a session by Riales (Hermit) on Mar 05, 2012 at 21:29 UTC
To me, the easiest way to go about this seems to be to find whatever script is outputting the messages you want to capture and have it do the emailing instead of just printing to STDOUT. I can't think of a good way to 'listen' for an event like that in a terminal...	[reply]
Re^4: monitor a session by efisher911 (Initiate) on Mar 14, 2012 at 21:14 UTC
Re: monitor a session by aaron_baugher (Curate) on Mar 15, 2012 at 14:29 UTC
How are the messages sent to the terminal? Do you run a program that outputs them, or is the server sending them to all terminals with something like `wall`? The first case is simple: pipe the output of the program to a script which does what you want with the output while reprinting it verbatim to the screen. The second case (which I'm guessing fits here) is more complicated, and depends on whether you're running this eterm on the server and displaying it on your local machine, or running the eterm on your local machine and connecting to the server with something like ssh. There may also be a better way to do it. Aaron B. My Woefully Neglected Blog, where I occasionally mention Perl.	[reply] [d/l]