Re: little script for log watching
Mike Egglestone <megglestone@heritage.sd57.bc.ca> writes:
> I would like to write a script that would
> output to the screen the latest contents of a log,
> and continue to do so until I abort the script.
No need to write it yourself --
$ apt-cache show console-log
Package: console-log
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Installed-Size: 48
Maintainer: Marc Haber <debian-packages@marc-haber.de>
Architecture: all
Version: 0.5
Depends: less, run (>=0.9.2-4), console-tools
Filename: pool/main/c/console-log/console-log_0.5_all.deb
Size: 5000
MD5sum: fdded8c42d3b4e9322a9e2d3dcd608fe
Description: Keeps a less syslog running on tty9
console-log keeps your syslog and your exim mainlog running in a less
process on tty9/tty8. It also makes sure that this console is visible
automatically after system boot so that a crashed system at least
leaves the syslog readable on the console before reset. Using less
makes searching, tagging and highlighting possible.
Works great here (it's in the unstable distribution only, however).
Greetings,
joachim
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