Way cool admin tool
David Kramer
david at thekramers.net
Fri Aug 27 20:34:01 EDT 2004
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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