mtail (1)

Name

mtail - tail variant designed for web developers monitoring logfiles

Synopsis

mtail [options] <file>...

Description

MonkeyTail allows a user to tail multiple files on both local and remote hosts and clearly marks inactivity by putting 5 newlines in the output whenever a pause in output over 3 seconds is detected.

MonkeyTail is implemented a fairly simple wrapper script around standard tail, ssh, and sudo.

Options

-q

Quiet mode

--quiet

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<file>...
Files to tail.

These can specified in the following ways:

@<groupname>
- expands the group (from .mtailrc) to a list of

files to tail

<filename>
- tails a local file.

+<filename>

- attempts to sudo and tail a local file (will prompt for pwd if required).

<remotehost>:<filename>
- attempts to invoke tail via ssh on a remote

host.

+<remotehost>:<filename> - attempts to invoke sudo tail via ssh on a

remote host (will prompt for pwd if required).

See Also

mtailrc(5) , tail(1)

Author

Martyn Smith <martyn@dollyfish.net.nz>

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