From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 14 00:28:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA13565 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from perki0.connect.com.au (perki0.connect.com.au [192.189.54.85]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA13553 for ; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 00:28:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from Unemeton@localhost) by perki0.connect.com.au id QAA14566 (8.7.5/IDA-1.6); Sat, 14 Sep 1996 16:55:41 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: perki0.connect.com.au: Unemeton set sender to giles@nemeton.com.au using -f >Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nemeton.com.au (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA15580; Sat, 14 Sep 1996 08:47:53 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <199609132247.IAA15580@nemeton.com.au> To: Terletsky Slavik cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to read /dev/console's messages Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 08:47:53 +1000 From: Giles Lean Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Sep 1996 16:36:56 +0300 Terletsky Slavik wrote: > I use different log files for different events but want to feed > system monitoring program (swatch) by all of them. The GNU tail is supposed to be able to tail multiple files -- you might try using it with swatch. Alternatively I have a version of swatch that handles multiple log files. It is pretty much alpha code though, and is written in perl5. You are welcome to a copy if you'd like; I hope to clean it up some more over the next few days. (Really a question for -questions, I suggest too.) Regards, Giles