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Overview
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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.
Dependancies
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Perl modules
* IO::Handle
* Event
* Getopt::Declare
* Config::General
These are available as Debian packages (in etch at least)
* perl-base (which you probably already have)
* libevent-perl
* libgetopt-declare-perl
* libconfig-general-perl
Usage
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Usage: ./mtail [options] <file>...
./mtail -help
./mtail -version
Options:
-q Quiet mode
--quiet " "
<file>... Files to tail, see --help for how to specify sudo/remote files
Files to tail can be specified in the following ways ...
* <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).
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