[Resending to this this. Sorry for anybody who is reading it twice].
I have an app that wants to continually fetch console messages, much
like the Console app itself. The problem I'm having is that the act of
performing and asl_search every second, or even every 5 seconds makes
syslogd go
Couldn't you open a StreamReader object to the file itself (or perhaps
from the out end of an NSTask that has the filtering already in place)?
I'm thinking some type of grep with the appropriate expression. This
task could be left open and simply keep reading in a worker thread in
your app. If
One problem with reading the file directly is that system.log is owned
by root:admin with no read permission granted to other users. Ideally,
I wouldn't want my app to require special privilege elevation to run
on a standard user's account.
Luke
On Nov 28, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Martin
