Re: [sheflug] Multi Tail

[Alan Pope <alan [at] xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 10:33:35AM +0100, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Just had some mail from someone who is working on a program called 
> Multi tail.  You might like to examine this and tell me whether it's 
> what it claims it is.  There have been other programs circulated 
> which were not what they claimed they were.....
> 


Multitail is indeed a fantastic app. You just run it with a list of files
you want to tail together. For example I tail 4 webserver log files together
when I'm bored ;)

alan [at] hactar:~$ apt-cache show multitail
Package: multitail
Priority: optional
Section: universe/utils
Installed-Size: 188
Maintainer: Rene Engelhard <rene [at] debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 3.8.4-1
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libncurses5 (>= 5.4-5)
Filename: pool/universe/m/multitail/multitail_3.8.4-1_i386.deb
Size: 63656
MD5sum: aa656bef4b72e70f88b2dd8df2a142e3
Description: view multiple logfiles windowed on console
 multitail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail
 program.
 .
 The difference is that this program creates multiple windows on
 your console (with ncurses). It can also use colors while displaying the
 logfiles for faster recognizing which lines are important and which are
 not.
 .
 It is optimized for terminal-sessions through slow links.
 Bugs: mailto:ubuntu-users [at] lists.ubuntu.com
 Origin: Ubuntu


Cheers,
Al.

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