The GO equiv. to 'tail -f' ?

[Steve Murphy]

I'm having a hard time finding some tools in GO to follow log files and make real-time commentary about stuff like alerting about outages now underway, and  making alerts over things that *should* happen by now but weren't, and such-like.

Any advice? I'm pretty sure I saw an article or two some months ago, but now nothing shows up in my search engine.

Many thanks

murf

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Steve Murphy
ParseTree Corporation

[Amnon]

What to do depends on the platform.
But there are quite a few examples around.

https://github.com/hpcloud/tail
https://github.com/papertrail/go-tail
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10135738/reading-log-files-as-theyre-updated-in-go

etc...

[Steve Murphy]

Many, many thanks. The hpcloud/tail hit the spot exactly, along with using timer.AfterFunc() along with judicious use of <timervar>.Stop() calls to turn on and off

audible alarms. That was just the help I needed! again, Many thanks!

murf