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Re: Log Viewers



> just type 
> tail -f var/log/maillog  /var/log/secure  
> the output will be  both logs  ...
Yes, but which output is from which log?  It shows all of them.  I
typically monitor those two, plus /var/log/maillog.  On another machine I
watch my apache combined_log and error_log files.

The reason I wrote logmon was to make monitoring of multiple files easier.
logmon keeps each file in a separate 'frame' in the terminal, can scroll
up/down/left/right (no line wrapping for long lines), and does syntax
highlighting (user configurable).

The other program mentioned, multitail, also does the multiple frame thing,
and some syntax highlighting (non-configurable thus far), but no scrolling.

Both work quite well.  Especially for us log-watchers.  :-)


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