About Band Saw ============== Band Saw is a syslog monitoring program desgined to help system administrators monitor many computers simultaneously. It runs on the desktop, displaying alerts when important log messages are received. Requirements ============ Band Saw is a GNOME application, written in Python. You will need to have GNOME, Python and the PyGTK and gnome-python libraries installed in order to run it. You will also need a syslog server. Though Band Saw has only been tested on Linux it should run on other Unix like operating systems without modification (feedback would be appreciated). GNOME, Python and PyGTK are available pre-packaged with most Linux distributions. Alternatively they may be obtained from the following sites: http://www.gnome.org/ http://www.python.org/ http://pygtk.org/ If you are unsure if you have the necessary software try running the configure script (see below); it will inform you if you are missing any of the required dependencies. Installation ============ The installation scripts are explained in detail in the INSTALL file, but for most users the following should suffice: $ ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc $ make # make install You should change the /usr prefix to match the path where your GNOME installation has been installed. The sysconfdir parameter should point to your gconf configuration files (they exist at /etc/gconf in this example). If either path is incorrect you may find that the user manual and default configuration options are unavailable. Support ======= Check the Band Saw user manual for help configuring Band Saw once it is installed (choose Help->Contents from within Band Saw, or open the GNOME help browser and navigate to the Band Saw Manual). If you have any problems using Band Saw please post a message to the Band Saw forum, describing your problem: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=384896 $Id: README,v 1.6 2006/03/08 19:41:58 ashtong Exp $
