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Way cool admin tool



http://freshmeat.net/projects/multitail/?branch_id=51882&release_id=171149

"MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. 
The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with 
ncurses). Merging of 2 or more log files is possible. It can also use colors 
while displaying the log files (through regular expressions) for faster 
recognition of what is important. It can also filter lines (again with regular 
expressions). It has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions 
and deleting and adding windows. One can also have windows with the output of 
shell scripts and other software. When viewing the output of external 
software, MultiTail can mimic the functionality of tools like 'watch'."

I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds like it would be very cool for tailing 
several /var/log/* files at once to see messages, mail, etc..

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