log wiever
Douglas Furlong
douglas.furlong at firebox.com
Thu Feb 12 15:39:00 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 15:24, John wrote:
> sid wrote:
> > Hello
> > in the log wiever I do not know how to make so, that last the recording
> > of log is in top of the list and not in bottom. How to arrange the list
> > by :
> > last arrived - > in top of the list?
> > Because when the log update the log go to the top of the list. when
> > you 've got a long list and when you want to follow some events how it
> > goes, it' s not wery confortable.
> > thank you
> > Jean-François DUMONT
> I'm sorry.. I don't have an answer to your question.. but I do have a
> couple suggestions...
>
> I feel that "Log Viewer" is over-rated. I prefer to view my logs
> directly in the /var/logs dir. If you use the less command
> (example: less /var/log/messages (or other log file).. the END key
> should take you to the bottom. *shrug*
>
> Also, if you just want to see the last 100 (or ?) lines of a file.. try
> the tail command (see "man tail").
> For example, if I want to see the last 100 lines of my maillog file.. I
> can use:
> # tail -100 /var/log/maillog
>
> Hope this is helpful.
Just a quick addition.
I find viewing logs while I am doing some thing (other then reviewing
them at a later date), then tail -f /location/of/log/file to be VERY
useful, combine that with tail -f /location/of/log/file | grep "what I
am looking for" to be really quite nice.
Doug
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