Twitter to monitor server from anywhere

The following perl script can be run on a server to monitor error logs via rss feeds on twitter.
 
#!/usr/bin/perl
# tail.pl
# This script is used to run a tail on a file and sends command to twitter cli which uploads to rss feed.
# This script was created by Terry Topp and can freely be used or modified by anyone.
# the follow line needs to be in /usr/local/bin filename twitter
# curl --basic --user "<username>:<password>" --data-ascii "status=`echo $@|tr ' ' '+'`" "http://twitter.com/statuses/update.json"
# libfile-tail-perl module needed to run script
# curl needed to run the CLI command in the twitter file
############################################################################

use warnings;
use strict;
use File::Tail;

my $line;
my $name = "/var/log/apache2/error.log";
my $file=File::Tail->new(name=>$name, maxinterval=>10, adjustafter=>7);
while (defined($line=$file->read)) {
#    if ($line){ # uncomment out for custom message
#        my $error = "Put your custom message here"; # uncomment out for custom message
        system('twitter', "$line"); # replace $line with $error for custom message
#    } # uncomment out for custom message
}
# EOF
 
The file can be modified to either give a custom message or the real error. You can modify the file to fliter using m/// regex to only post wanted error messages. I have included in the header the command used by the script, which is saved in the location mention.
The twitter CLI information was found here:
http://binnyva.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-twitter-part-1-command-line.ht...
or
sudo apt-get install curl
There is also a perl module required, which you have Perl installed all ready and use apt-get the following command :
sudo apt-get install libfile-tail-perl
Then you will need to have a twitter account for each server and be sure to check the box to not make the post public. Once to script is started by typing : perl tail.pl : you can scribe to the feeds to follow your servers and about every 30 seconds the log files are checked. Should you want to download the Perl module from the CPAN by going to:
http://search.cpan.org/~mgrabnar/File-Tail-0.99.3/Tail.pm.
In the download there is a script to monitor several files at once.
Enjoy,
Iamvarr