NAME
mtail - tail variant designed for web developers monitoring logfiles
SYNOPSIS
mtail [options] <file>...
DESCRIPTION
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
- -q
-
Quiet mode
- --quiet
-
" "
- -n
-
Output the last N lines of each file before tailing (defaults to 0)
- <file>...
-
Files to tail.
-
These can specified in the following ways:
- @<groupname>
-
- expands the group (from .mtailrc) to a list of
-
files to tail
- <filename>
-
- tails a local file.
- +<filename> - attempts to sudo and tail a local file (will
-
prompt for pwd if required).
- <remotehost>:<filename>
-
- attempts to invoke tail via ssh on a remote
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host.
- +<remotehost>:<filename> - attempts to invoke sudo tail via ssh on a
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remote host (will prompt for pwd if required).
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
Martyn Smith <[email protected]>