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Alaric
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 2:20 pm    Post subject: log tailer Reply with quote

Any nice program that maybe runs like torsmo that can do a tail of /var/log/messages? Right now I used a borderless aterm. Would like something planted to my desktop. Thought about just doing it in torsmo but dont want my torsmo to be huge. Any suggestions or ideas?


Keep in mind, its early and havent had my coffee so im a bit slow, sorry if I missed anything obvious =)


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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
# tail -f /var/log/messages


That should do it..
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The last line of my .torsmorc tells it to execute a
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tail -n 3 /var/log/messages


every 5 seconds... works perfect for me.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Code:
emerge x11-terms/root-tail
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 14, 2005 8:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

heh guess I should have been more specific. I know how to tail a log file, root-tail was what I was aiming for. Thanks all, ill keep poking around.
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