logtail

NAME

SYNOPSIS

logtail [ select ]

logtail [ -t ] [ -c | -C ] [ select ]

AVAILABILITY

DESCRIPTION

The config file can list logfiles using the wild cards as known from the ls(1) command. The list is resolved prior to each start of logtail and only the files that exist on the system and are readable by the user are listed in the selection list.

This enables the user to have an identical configuration file for all servers and operating systems.

To load a log file into a viewer (view), instead of the continuous file output of logtail, use the logview(1) command.

OPTIONS

-t

add a high resolution timestamp to the output allowing timing information display on logfiles without timestamps.

-c

colorize tailed output based on logcheckd.pattern(4) files.

-C

prepend [LEVEL] to the colorizes tailed output based on logcheckd.pattern(4) files.

select

select files from logfile list.

ENVIRONMENT

$APPROOT

root directory of the application as resolved by approot(3). This variable can be used in the log files configuration files to point to the root of the WA2L/edrc installation. Therefore for example the ~edrc/var/log/edrc.log definition can be replaced with $APPROOT/var/log/edrc.log with the result that logview also lists the logfile when no edrc user is defined on the system.

$LOGTAIL_LEVELMODE

set the appearance of the [LEVEL] effective when using the -C option.

Possible settings are: light, bold, invers, red, green, magenta, blue, cyan and yellow, whereas the default is bold.

EXIT STATUS

0

no error.

FILES

$HOME/.log_files

definition of files to be listed in the selection. Only the root user should list the files in this config file.

$HOME/.mylog_files

definition of files to be listed in the selection. For non-root users, this file should be used to define the log files instead of .log_files due to the preservation of .my* files when using the mkuser(3) and/or makeuser(3) commands.

etc/log_files.cfg

system wide definition of log files. This file is read when the files $HOME/.log_files and $HOME/.mylog_files do not exist.

etc/lgcheckd.cfg

configuration file of lgcheckd(1m) to resolve the pattern file for a selected log file.

etc/logcheckd.cfg

configuration file of logcheckd(1m) to resolve the pattern file for a selected log file. This file is read, if the etc/lgcheckd.cfg does not exist.

var/logcheckd/pattern/

pattern files.

var/logcheckd/pattern/logtail

default pattern file, if no pattern file could be resolved.

EXAMPLES

1) common usage

Configuration file example:

  #
  # log_files.cfg - configuration file for logtail and logview
  #
  # [00] 08.08.2004 CWa Initial Version
  #
  $APPROOT/var/log/edrc.log
  $APPROOT/var/log/pack.log
  $APPROOT/var/log/patchinstall.log
  $APPROOT/var/log/filedist.log
  $APPROOT/var/log/rcmd.log
  $APPROOT/var/log/sysconfig.log
  $APPROOT/var/log/shttpd_*.log
  /etc/cmcluster/*/*.log
  /etc/shutdownlog
  ~ACME/log/sap_instance.log
  /opt/patrol/log/*.log
  /var/adm/cron/log
  /var/log/boot.log
  /var/log/cron
  /var/log/cups/access_log
  /var/log/cups/error_log
  /var/log/dmesg
  /var/log/httpd/*
  /var/log/lastlog
  /var/log/maillog
  /var/log/messages
  /var/adm/messages
  /var/log/samba/log.nmbd

Example usage:

  [ /home/barney ]
  [ barney@acme001 ][bash]: logtail

   1) /opt/edrc/var/log/edrc.log
   2) /opt/edrc/var/log/pack.log
   3) /opt/edrc/var/log/patchinstall.log
   4) /opt/edrc/var/log/sysconfig.log
   5) /opt/ACME/log/sap_instance.log
   6) /var/log/boot.log
   7) /var/log/cron
   8) /var/log/dmesg
   9) /var/log/httpd/access_log
  10) /var/log/httpd/access_log.1
  11) /var/log/httpd/access_log.2
  12) /var/log/httpd/access_log.3
  13) /var/log/httpd/access_log.4
  14) /var/log/httpd/error_log
  15) /var/log/httpd/error_log.1
  :
  41) /var/opt/ACME/log/useradm.log
  42) /var/opt/ACME/log/watchdog.log
  43) /var/opt/samba/log.smb.rh7mzv7t001
  select log:6

  logtail-INFO: tail -f /var/log/cron
  Jan 14 14:01:00 rh7mzv7t001 CROND[27550]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
  Jan 14 15:01:00 rh7mzv7t001 CROND[27913]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
  Jan 14 16:01:00 rh7mzv7t001 CROND[28276]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)
  Jan 14 18:01:00 rh7mzv7t001 CROND[29478]: (root) CMD (run-parts /etc/cron.hourly)

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