graphical 'tail -f ' somewhere?
some time ago i used a kde program working like 'tail -f' to show me the last few lines of my logfiles in a window. i lost the name of this utility. any clues? martin
Martin, El Lun 21 Mar 2005 16:24, Martin Brüggebors escribió:
some time ago i used a kde program working like 'tail -f' to show me the last few lines of my logfiles in a window.
i lost the name of this utility. any clues?
Could it have been KTail? You can get it here: http://www.duffy1.franken.de/rjakob/#kde Regards, -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia http://www.noemasol.com
Martin, On Monday 21 Mar 2005 21:24, Martin Brüggebors wrote:
some time ago i used a kde program working like 'tail -f' to show me the last few lines of my logfiles in a window.
i lost the name of this utility. any clues?
Are you thinking of kwatch? It comes in its own rpm. -- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
Colin Pinkney schrieb:
Martin,
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 21:24, Martin Brüggebors wrote:
some time ago i used a kde program working like 'tail -f' to show me the last few lines of my logfiles in a window.
Are you thinking of kwatch? It comes in its own rpm.
Yes! Thank you! Martin
Colin, On Monday 21 March 2005 13:54, Colin Pinkney wrote:
Martin,
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 21:24, Martin Brüggebors wrote:
some time ago i used a kde program working like 'tail -f' to show me the last few lines of my logfiles in a window.
i lost the name of this utility. any clues?
Are you thinking of kwatch? It comes in its own rpm.
This is a good choice when you have a fixed set (or an infrequently changing set) of log files to watch, this is good. However, if you want to use it like a graphical "tail" command, it's not the best choice, simply because you cannot give file name arguments on the command line when you invoke it. Unfortunately, KTail is the same. It (KTail) is superior in that it uses a separate tab for each file it's monitoring. KTail can also monitor process output via a pipe to a command it starts.
Colin Pinkney
Randall Schulz
On Monday 21 Mar 2005 22:28, Randall R Schulz wrote:
However, if you want to use it like a graphical "tail" command, it's not the best choice, simply because you cannot give file name arguments on the command line when you invoke it.
Unfortunately, KTail is the same. It (KTail) is superior in that it uses a separate tab for each file it's monitoring. KTail can also monitor process output via a pipe to a command it starts.
I was just answering Martin's question and kwatch comes with SuSE. Personally, I use karamba running the tail command every few seconds. It surprisingly doesn't have much overhead, you can use almost all the tail arguments naturally, and you can make it look like root-tail. If there was a way of using tail -f with karamba that would be good. Maybe superkaramba can handle that? -- Colin Pinkney http://www.cpinkney.org.uk
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