10.5: Monitor Time Machine activity via GeekTool

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10.5: Monitor Time Machine activity via GeekTool
Authored by: dbs on Fri, Dec 21 2007 at 10:15AM PST

In 10.5 you should not use the system.log file for accessing logged events. Instead use the "syslog" program to directly query for new events. Check out "man syslog" to see how to do it. (The system.log file is apparently generated by syslog for backwards compatibility only.)

10.5: Monitor Time Machine activity via GeekTool
Authored by: rjbailey on Fri, Dec 21 2007 at 10:53AM PST

"man syslog" seems to indicate that syslog is a C routine. Not much help here.

10.5: Monitor Time Machine activity via GeekTool
Authored by: CarlRJ on Tue, Mar 18 2008 at 12:04PM PDT

syslog is in both section 1 (commands) and 3 (libraries) of the manual. To override the man's guess of which you wanted to see (i.e. get to the page for the syslog command), use:

man 1 syslog

     


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      Authored by: freddiepingpong on Wed, Jan  2 2008 at  4:31PM PST
    
  
  Syslog (full name: Apple System Log Utility) works fine for me. I'm still trying to figure out the usage, but it looks quite powerful.
     


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