Tyler Smith said:
How do you actually run tail with -f? Do you just let it go in it's own xterm and periodically check to see if it has spit out anything of concern? Or can you use it in a terminal you're using for other tasks as a background process? Sounds useful, but I'm not sure exactly how you'd operate it...
I use gtail -f in a separate screen window to watch log files. I also sent the output to "logcolorise.pl" which makes things pretty. Screen saves me from using multiple xterms for things like this. Nick