I llok for an utility to watch log files
Hi, I normally watch several logs files, for which purpose I open the gnome terminal (or kde konsole) with several tabs, each one running a 'tailf /var/log/somefile'. But it seems a waste of bash sessions and waste of time having to type it all again every time I open an X session. What utilities are there to do this? I can't find one I totally like. There is xtail (german only), but it only shows one file, and it doesn't accept a command line. The about box says '1994', by the way. xless opens an independent window for each one, and I want only one window with several tabs. There is some other thing that takes outputs from several logs and puts all of them, joined, intermixed, in the same window: that isn't it either. And finally, I wouldn't like it to be specifically kdeish or gnomeish :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Quoting Carlos E. R.
Hi,
I normally watch several logs files, for which purpose I open the gnome terminal (or kde konsole) with several tabs, each one running a 'tailf /var/log/somefile'. But it seems a waste of bash sessions and waste of time having to type it all again every time I open an X session.
What utilities are there to do this? I can't find one I totally like.
Xlogmaster
Op zondag 3 augustus 2003 04:14, schreef Jeffrey L. Taylor:
Quoting Carlos E. R.
: Hi,
I normally watch several logs files, for which purpose I open the gnome terminal (or kde konsole) with several tabs, each one running a 'tailf /var/log/somefile'. But it seems a waste of bash sessions and waste of time having to type it all again every time I open an X session.
What utilities are there to do this? I can't find one I totally like.
Xlogmaster
ktail?? http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/pkgs/app-admin/ktail.xml -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
The 03.08.03 at 07:44, Richard Bos wrote:
Ah, that one is not included by SuSE, it needs some doings on my part :-) [...] It is a kde thing. [...] Home page broken, doesn't respond (http://www.franken.de/users/duffy1/rjakob/) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Carlos E. R. wrote, On 08/03/2003 07:48 PM:
The 03.08.03 at 07:44, Richard Bos wrote:
Ah, that one is not included by SuSE, it needs some doings on my part :-)
Check http://packman.links2linux.de/download.php4?t=b&id=1126 -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
On Sunday 03 August 2003 07:48 am, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.08.03 at 07:44, Richard Bos wrote:
Ah, that one is not included by SuSE, it needs some doings on my part :-) [...] It is a kde thing. [...] Home page broken, doesn't respond (http://www.franken.de/users/duffy1/rjakob/)
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson ===============
Kwatch is also very good at watching different log files and is included. pat -- --- KMail v1.5.3 --- SuSE Linux Pro v8.2 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
The 03.08.03 at 09:19, BandiPat wrote:
Kwatch is also very good at watching different log files and is included.
Ah, yes, I tried it. It has two snags, though: 1) It needs kde, I would like it to be "universal". 2) It can log several files, but all of them go to the same window, interleaved. I wanted each one to go to its own "tab". -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
The 03.08.02 at 21:14, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
What utilities are there to do this? I can't find one I totally like.
Xlogmaster
Mmmm... nice... It's actually configurable :-) Still, there is one thing. The command "tailf" has a difference with "tail -f", in that it doesn't cause disk activity if the file doesn't grow, so that it would allow the HD to spin down if possible. I'll have to read docs to see what method xlogmaster uses, but it appears to be "tail -f". -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
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BandiPat
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Jeffrey L. Taylor
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Joe Morris (NTM)
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Richard Bos