From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 28 13:53:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F023137B401 for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:53:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AE4343E6E for ; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:53:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA25192; Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:53:35 -0800 Message-ID: <3DBDB1DF.2040104@owt.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:53:35 -0800 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bryan Cassidy Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: root-tail question References: <20021028065339.3a2c7a6d.bryanc2000@insightbb.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bryan Cassidy wrote: > I don't know if this is the appropriate mailing list but it should > be pretty simple for someone to answer so. I just installed > root-tail from the ports and when I root-tail -f /var/log/message > and it prints the output from /var/log/messages on the "top left" > of the window and the text is kinda small. I was wondering 3 > things. First I would like to know how do I change the font size, > second how could I make it go to the "bottom left" but not all the > way down so it would cover the toolbar of fluxbox. I dont want it > to cover the toolbar. Third is if anyone uses root-tail could you > post what options you use when you load root-tail? > I don't try and position it and I use the default fonts. I have then set up as a session default. All text comes up with that size font. The only thing I have found is that the default tail doesn't include enough lines. So I have aliases like slog (tail -30 /var/log/security) slog5 (tail -50 /var/log/security) The longer ones I only use from a windowed environment such as SecureCRT on W2K or a console windows on kde-3 with scrollbars on the right side. I have one called "mlog" which looks at messages and so on. One my web server, I have aliases that display both lengths of the current httpd-access.log and error log. As a personal preference, I don't believe in using long names like root-tail. I also have aliases like vlog that cd into /var/log and etc. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message