desktop log viewing

[Paul Howarth]

Przemyslaw Gawronski wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering what tools do you use to monitor your logs. What I'm
> mostly interested in is something that would render output of a:
> 
> 'tail -f /var/log/somelogfile'
> 
> to the screen directly, so I don't need an extra terminal without
> borders and buttons.
> 
> I found something like root-tail, but maybe there is something more?

You might also look at multitail, which is in Extras.

Paul.