Notification-tools Files

Notification-tools are small tools that watch a file and then notify
you when the file is modified.

I have started to make programs that runs automatic via cron, but
sometime they fail and generates errors in an error log file. Often
when that happens I have moved on to new projects, so I don't see the
error for a long time. So I made these programs that can watch a file
for me and the notify me if the file change.

Example:
If you run an Apache server on you computer, you can watch the
error log with 'notification-tail /var/log/apache2/error_log'. Now if
the error log changes an icon will appear in the Notification Area.  By
clicking the icon a window will open that let you see the last lines
in the error log file.

These notification tool uses GTK+ and the gtk_status_icon function,
and the inotify library for the file watching functionality. I have
tried to make them ambient, modular and general. And the code contain
a little mini framework, so making similar tool is very easy.

Since I have keeped them general you can combine them with any program
or script that writes to a file.

Some information is better in visual form, that why there is a
notification-view program, it will watch and display an image file.

Example: 
Use a script that counts the daily visitors in the Apache
access log and then append the number into a file. Then you can use
gnuplot to make a plot of the data and write an image. Thereby giving
you a daily update of your server traffic.

Or you could make a daily plot over the value in you portfolio or the
number of lines in you current project. As you see only your
imagination is the limitation :-)

Building: 
You build the tools by using 'make all' and that will build
the 3 tools.  You can use the --help-all option on the tools to get a
description of the options and use