mtail1
Tail variant designed for web developers monitoring logfiles
Usage
mtail [options]
<file> ...
Overview
MonkeyTail allows a user to tail multiple files on both local and remote hosts and clearly marks inactivity by putting 5 newlines in the output whenever a pause in output over 3 seconds is detected.
MonkeyTail is implemented a fairly simple wrapper script around standard tail, ssh, and sudo.
Options
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-q -
Quiet mode
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--quiet -
" "
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-n -
Output the last N lines of each file before tailing (defaults to 0)
<file>...
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Files to tail. |
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These can specified in the following ways: |
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@<groupname>
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- expands the group (from .mtailrc) to a list of |
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files to tail |
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<filename>
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- tails a local file. |
+<filename> - attempts to sudo and tail a local file (will
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prompt for pwd if required). |
<remotehost>:<filename>
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- attempts to invoke tail via ssh on a remote |
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host. |
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+<remotehost>:<filename> - attempts to invoke sudo tail via ssh on a
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remote host (will prompt for pwd if required). |
Releases
4 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.
-n since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).