Script to tail/monitor and email upon activity...

Hello all,
First time poster, medium time user.
I'm looking to create a script that "watches" /var/log/authlog, and emails a user upon any failed or successful login, for 2 specific account. I've exhausted several options, including simply adding a script to /etc/profile for these accounts' logins, but that won't trap unsuccessful logins. Also, I've tried the following: http://search.cpan.org/~mgrabnar/File-Tail-0.99.3/Tail.pm --- but that won't fly in our environment (management decsion).
Can somebody please help with some ideas?
Thanks!
-Bob

I think your best bet is to write a routine that can parse the dates in the logfile that you're looking through so that you only look at entries after a specified point in time (or will look x mins back through the log), and so you don't double report on extant instances in the log.
The perl module Date::EzDate could be of use in the prevention of the reinvention of the wheel on the date parsing :)
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