Hi all
I've read through a few of these lists but can't find a right combination of answers (I can create VPN's but can't send an email!)
Ok - I'm using taper as backup software which generates a log file called taper_log I want the last eight lines of this log file to be sent to a specified... (3 Replies)
Not sure why this does not work in bash:
tail -f err.log |&
-bash: syntax error near unexpected token `&'
I am attempting to continuously read a file that is being updated by doing a "tail -f" on the file and piping the output to stdin which can then be read by the next shell command
Thnx (4 Replies)
Hello at my home when i try
tail +5 emp
it works but when i try in my college it doesn't work! what can be the problem any idea?
when i type
man tail
it gives me various options in which it's mentioned that tail +n can also work when you want to display from nth line. But... (3 Replies)
Hi All,
How I will read the output of the tail -F command in perl.
I have text file with below contains
file1.txt
1
2
3
4
$running=1;
sub openLog($)
{
(my $log) = @_; (1 Reply)
Hi Dears,
I am using AWK script to monitor some log files. My awk will get the input from the output of tail -f LOGFILE. (tail -f LOGFILE | myawkanalyzer)
My doubt is, How can I notify, if I didn't get any output from the tail -f command. i.e) Log file stuck for some reason. I want to display... (1 Reply)
The below code works to tail client.log file. but I want to copy the output into an external file /home/tail.txt
Can anyone please help.
#!/opt/bin/perl -w
open my $pipe, "-|", "/usr/bin/tail", "/var/log/client.log" or die "could not start tail on /var/log/client.log : $!";
print while... (2 Replies)
Hi All,
Although each line below seems to work by itself, I've been having trouble getting the Control-C trap working when I add the "|perl -pe..." to the end of the tail -f line, below.
(That |perl -pe statement basically just adds color to highlight the word "ERROR" while tailing a log... (2 Replies)
Hello;
Am trying to correct the formatting of tail output over ssh.
Using the following code:
echo "" > $FILE
for BOX in $SERVERS
do
echo "Processing on $BOX" |tee -a $FILE
echo "===============================" >> $FILE
sudo ssh $BOX 'TERMINAL="vt100" /usr/bin/sh -s' <... (2 Replies)
Hello,
I need to tail -f a file output stream and I need to get only lines that contains "get" and "point" in the same line. It doesn't matter the order.
Then I need only the text BEFORE "point".
I have to count each line and perform other serveral actions after this has performed 3 times.... (9 Replies)
hi guys,
I perform a sort of monitoring. I have a server running and with
tail -f | grep "Searchstring"I monitor the log-file for recent specific entries. This is ok and works fine.
Now, in addition I want to have my search results not posted into the shell but into a file. I tried:
tail... (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: LaUs3r
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
logtop
LOGTOP(1) General Commands Manual LOGTOP(1)NAME
logtop - Realtime log line rate analyser
SYNOPSIS
logtop [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
logtop is a System Administrator tool analyzing line rate on stdin.
It reads on stdin and print a constantly updated result
displaying, in columns:
Line number, count, frequency, and the actual line.
$ tail -f FILE | logtop
is the friendly version of:
$ watch 'tail FILE | sort | uniq -c | sort -gr'
OPTIONS -s, --size=K
Only keep K lines in memory, instead of 10000.
-q, --quiet
Do not display a live view of the data, only display a top at exit.
-l, --line-by-line=K
Print result line by line, in a machine friendly format, K is the number of result to print per line.
Line by line format is : [%d %f %s ]*
%d : Number of occurences
%f : Frequency of apparition
%s : String (Control chars replaced by dots.
-i, --interval=K
Interval between graphical updates, in seconds. Defaults to 1.
-h, --help
Show summary of options.
-v, --version
Show version of program.
EXAMPLES
Here are some logtop usage examples.
tail -f cache.log | grep -o "HIT|MISS" | logtop
Realtime hit / miss ratio on some caching software log file.
tail -f access.log | cut -d' ' -f1 | logtop -s 10000
Realtime most querying IPs on your server, as long as log lines in access.log starts with the client IP.
tail -f access.log | cut -d' ' -f7 | logtop -s 10000
Realtime most requested web pages in a NCSA like log file.
cat auth.log | grep -v "CRON" | grep -o ": .*" | logtop -q -s 100000
Display a one-shot simple analyse of your auth.log.
SEE ALSO watch(1)AUTHOR
logtop was written by Julien Palard.
This manual page was written by Julien Palard <julien@palard.fr>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
April 16, 2011 LOGTOP(1)