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Old 05-26-2006
jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline Forum Staff  
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Code:
while true
do
      tail  -f file.log | grep -q 'ERROR'
      if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
            cat file.log | /usr/bin/mailx -s 'logfile error' me@whereIam.com
            break
      fi
done

NOTE: this is a lame example because the loop never ends on a file that doesn't have errors. I have no idea what will tell you (using another similar grep check for success)
when to exit the loop.