Console log file viewer, kind of extended 'tail'.

[Snyder]

How about a simple console log file viewer as follows:

- Basically works like 'tail -f /var/log/* ...'.

- Allows to interactively exclude some log files. Maybe pressing
'l' gives a list of all eligible log files (those given on the
command line). Then the user can select or deselect them by
keystrokes (they are given numbers or such).

- Nice to have: the list for selection also shows an estimate of
new lines per second for each log file. So the user can
choose to deselect log files with particularly high traffic, in
order that he will be able to see the others scroll by nicely.

- Pressing 'i' invertes current selection.

- Default selection is configurable via some ~/.foorc file.

- There should also be a way to run all or certain log files
through a filter or manipulation program, e.g. grep or
tai64nlocal.

Does something like that exist out there already?

If not, maybe I'll code it someday. Shouldn't be too difficult.

[Barry Margolin]

In article <h5rpd4$5ig$1...@news.albasani.net>,
"Snyder" <no_emai...@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> How about a simple console log file viewer as follows:

...

> Does something like that exist out there already?
>
> If not, maybe I'll code it someday. Shouldn't be too difficult.

GNOME includes a Log Viewer app.

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[Alfred Bartsch]

Snyder wrote:

I'm using xtail for these purposes, combined with syslog_ng (available
on many platforms).

[Stefaan A Eeckels]

Have a look at Folkert Vanheusden's multi-tail:

http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/

He's got some nice utilities - like the one that uses a Bayesian
filter to determine which lines in a log merit attention.

Take care,

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