---
name: flasher
version: 1.3
origin: sysutils/flasher
comment: Monitors log or mail files for writes, and flashes a keyboard LED
arch: freebsd:9:x86:64
www: http://www.unixporting.com/downloads/flasher/
maintainer: freebsd@nesbitt.ca
prefix: /usr/local
licenselogic: single
flatsize: 12787
desc: |
  Flasher monitors changes to one or more files, and indicates the
  number of writes to these files by briefly flashing a console LED
  once for each write.  The flashing sequence is repeated, after a
  brief pause, until the files have been read.  As the files are
  subsequently read, the number of LED flashes is reduced.  When all
  monitored files have been read, the console LED will be disabled.

  The most obvious use is to monitor specific system log or mail files.

  Multiple LEDs can be used. Each possible LED (-c, -n or -s) takes
  a list of colon-separated file arguments.  For example, when invoked
  as:

      # ./flasher -s /var/log/messages:/var/mail/root

  the Scroll Lock LED will flash once for each write made to either
  of these files, until the files are read.  When /var/log/messages
  has been read, the Scroll Lock LED will continue to flash once for
  each write that has been made to /var/mail/root, until it also has
  been read.

  The list of files can include files that don't yet exist.

  WWW: http://www.unixporting.com/downloads/flasher/
categories: [sysutils]
files:
  /usr/local/man/man1/flasher.1.gz: c4d2159f49d9ba450668a814c0c500ba409e4600f912a1555e265b0e43e3b526
  /usr/local/sbin/flasher: c453f4f17c69bdc733eb050e0077dad8eb367f8491ce16c515eaeef6dd1fd437
scripts: {}
