Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I like to vie several logs on tabs of the same gnome-terminal window. For
this, I was forced to type the commands on every session: "tailf
/var/log/mail" on one, tailf /var/log/mail.debug on another, etc. I just
found another, better way, by chance.

First I created this script:

#!/bin/ash

gnome-terminal \
 --tab-with-profile=small --title "One"   --command "bash" \
 --tab-with-profile=small --title=mail    --command "tailf /var/log/mail"         \
 --tab-with-profile=small --title=mail.debug     --command "tailf /var/log/mail.debug"   \
 --tab-with-profile=small --title=messages --command "tailf /var/log/messages"     \
 --tab-with-profile=small --title=localmessages  --command "tailf /var/log/localmessages"\
 --tab-with-profile=small --title=warn    --command "tailf /var/log/warn"         \
 --tab-with-profile=small --title=alert   --command "tailf /var/log/snort/alert"  \
 --tab-with-profile=small --title=Two    \
 --tab-with-profile=small --title=Three   \
 --tab-with-profile=small --title=Four \
 --tab-with-profile=small --title=Five  \
 &


which launchs a gnome terminal with several opened tabs, each with the
appropiate command running. An added advantage is the tabs with the tailf
commands do not have a "bash" shell associated with them, so that memory
is saved:

 3229 ?        S      0:01 gnome-terminal --sm-config-prefix /gnome-terminal-DGCcaJ/ --sm-client-id 11c0a86402000108309048200000030940008 --scree
 3292 ?        S      0:00  \_ gnome-pty-helper
 3293 pts/5    S      0:00  \_ bash
 3294 pts/6    S      0:00  \_ tailf /var/log/mail
 3295 pts/7    S      0:00  \_ tailf /var/log/mail.debug
 3296 pts/8    S      0:00  \_ tailf /var/log/messages
 3297 pts/9    S      0:00  \_ tailf /var/log/localmessages
 3298 pts/10   S      0:00  \_ tailf /var/log/warn
 3299 pts/11   S      0:00  \_ tailf /var/log/snort/alert
 3301 pts/12   S      0:00  \_ bash
 3302 pts/13   S      0:00  \_ bash
 3318 pts/14   S      0:00  \_ bash
 3319 pts/15   S      0:00  \_ bash


The interesting point is that, if the session is saved on exit, gnome
remember how it was done, and calls the terminal in the same way the next
session. Perfect!




-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson