tailer

tailer is a package for Go that tail -f the files in the watching directory, and publish to a NATS server.

Install using go get github.com/clsung/tailer/cmd/tailer.

Full documentation is available at http://godoc.org/github.com/clsung/tailer

Below is an example of its usage which tail file to local nats server.

% export NATS_CLUSTER=nats://localhost:4222/
% tailer --nats /tmp

Also you can use docker image to run it. Say we want to watch /mnt/extend-disk/tmp:

% docker run -e HOSTNAME=$HOSTNAME -e NATS_CLUSTER=$NATS_CLUSTER \
	-v /mnt/extend-disk/tmp:/tmp -d clsung/tailer