Can putty beep when tailing a log file

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I have a putty session tailing a log. I either keep flipping to it to see in anything has come up or I forget to check it at all. Can putty or tail be made to "beep" if anything scrolls into the window?

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will this work?:

tail -f /var/log/messages  | sed 's/^/\a/'

To change the PuTTY SSH session window title (one by one manually by the PuTTY GUI):

For Windows & Debian

Load a session from PuTTY.

On left side tree menu, click on: Window → Behaviour.

On the right panel, in the Window title text box enter your title.

Save the session.

To change the PuTTY SSH session window title (for all sessions by command line):

For Debian 8 (Jessie)

Go to the folder where PuTTY stores sessions: /home/nolwennig/.putty/sessions

Note: replace nolwennig with your username

Assign to parameter WinTitle the saved session file name for each saved session file with something like this:

find . -type f -exec sed -e 's/^WinTitle=/WinTitle=%f/g' {} \;

It works fine if no WinTitle is recorded

For Windows
PuTTY stores sessions in Windows registry HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Simontatham\PuTTY\Sessions

Note: not replace SimonTatham with your username.
You can export this section with a command like this:
C:> regedit /e "%userprofile%\desktop\putty-registry-sessions.reg" HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Simontatham\PuTTY\Sessions
It must be possible to make a script that updates the putty-registry-sessions.reg file to change the value of WinTitle for each of the saved sessions.

Sources & inspirations:

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To change the PuTTY SSH session window title (one by one manually by the PuTTY GUI):

To change the PuTTY SSH session window title (for all sessions by command line):

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