Pidgin Monitor

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Overview

This tool monitors Pidgin system logs for changes in your buddies’ statuses. Provides some simple coloring of output.

Setup

Requirements:

• Python Commons

Todo

Known issues:

• ctrl-c/sigint does not actually manage to kill everything; you must manually pkill tail afterward.

General tasks:

• Investigate whether Pidgin flushes logs in reasonable time bounds, and whether there are any other such issues that could possibly be causing the monitor to exhibit high latency.
• Filters to allow monitoring only friends of interest.

License

Pidgin Monitor is released under the GNU GPL3.

Contact

Copyright 2008 Yang Zhang.
All rights reserved.

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