Welcome to WOTS
===============

WOTS is an easily configurable, flexible and hopefully useful logfile
monitoring tool.  If you know `swatch', it isn't all that different in
concept, except that it does quite a bit more, and will do even more
in the future.

Getting WOTS
============

Well, you already have, but in case you can't remember, sometime in
the dim distant future:

    http://www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/~tc/tools/

Building WOTS
=============

All of WOTS is in perl (of course :-).  You need perl version 5,
preferably 5.00404 or better.

I have included a very simple configure script which is a bit like the
Cygnus one, but is a lot simpler.

The location of perl and other helper programs is now set in the file
Make.config.  Edit this to suit your requirements, and then "make".
(Note: in earlier versions of WOTS I tried to be oh-so clever with
all-singing-and-dancing configure scripts.  For the time being I have
gone back to a simpler model.)

WOTS uses the modules

    Term::ANSIColor
and
    Mail::Send

You can get them from CPAN.

Or...if you don't want the features they offer (highlighted `echo' and
`mail', comment out the relevant `use' lines in the file `wots.in').

Documentation is in a manpage, wots.man, and there is a sample
configuration file to get you started.  texinfo documentation will
follow at some point.

Good luck,

Tony Curtis
1997, 1998