Package: wnpp Severity: normal log2mail is a daemon watching logfiles and mailing lines matching patterns. It server a purpose similar to logcheck but does it in realtime, so it can be used as a nice way to implement alerts: programs log things, and you can get a mail (or a sms via a mail-to-sms gateway) as soon as bad things are spotted.
It's been a very useful tool for me in my past job, and I took over maintenance from the previous maintainer. log2mail has been quite a critical application for us there. More than a year ago I quit that job, and I'm not using log2mail anymore. The package is in a pretty good shape and does not usually need much care: I did around one upload per year, and I just made one upload fixing all bugs, bringing the whole build system up to date and in line with the last standards-version, porting to cdbs. At the time I took over the package, upstream was happy to hand also upstream maintenance to me. The code is simple, linear and quite well written. At that time, upstream told me if I couldn't maintain log2mail anymore, he would take it back. Time has passed from there, and I sent him a mail asking him what he intends to do. I'm orphaning the package not because it's a burden, but because my other Debian activities are occupying most of my time already and I feel I can't commit to being a good maintainer for it anymore. Ciao, Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.7-1-686-smp Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
