SWATCH - The Simple WATCHer and filter Swatch is designed to monitor system activity. Swatch requires a configuration file which contains pattern(s) to look for and action(s) to do when each pattern is found. The file contains four TAB separated fields: /pattern/[,/pattern/,...] action[,action,...] [[HH:]MM:]SS start:length A pattern must be a regular expression which perl(1) will accept, which is very similar to the regular expressions which egrep(1) accepts. The following actions are acceptable: echo[=mode] bell[=N] exec=command ignore mail[=address:address:...] pipe=command write[=user:user:...]