the tail -F process seems to not let go of the file it was already tailing so creating a new link will not work ... you may need to kill the tail process first prior to creating the new link ...
but if you have to do that, it would be much cleaner and much easier to understand if you tailed the latest file identified by its file name (i.e., CybertonTransaction.20130710-04.log) instead of the generic latest.log ...
Is this possible? I am attempting to display a new xterm window and tail -f the log file within that new window. I am currently working on a solaris 8 machine if that has any different meaning than the other platforms. As you can see, I am a newbie to this forum and to UNIX. Any help would be... (2 Replies)
Hi there,
I have a problem here that involves bash script since I was noob in that field. Recently, I have to monitor data involve in logs so I just run command tail -f for the monitoring. The logs was generate every hour so I need to quickly change my logs every time the new hour hits according... (2 Replies)
I've seen several examples of scripts in thise forum about having a script generate a log file. I have a script that is run from cron and that monitors a file system for a specfic filename(s) and then performs some actions on them. Normally I call this script from another script (which the one... (2 Replies)
Hi All..
I have a log file in which all the backup information is stored. Now i have written a script which get the last line in the backup log file..
ssh -l ora${sid} ${primaryhost} "tail -1 /oracle/$ORACLE_SID/sapbackup/back$ORACLE_SID.log"
However i would like to tail the line last... (4 Replies)
Hello all,
I've got what I'm pretty sure is a simple problem, but I just can't seem to work past it. I'm trying to use awk to pretty up a log file, and calculate a percentage.
The log file looks like this:
# tail strtovrUsage
20090531-18:15:45 RSreq - 24, RSsuc - 24, RSrun - 78, RSerr -... (4 Replies)
Hi Friendz,
I have 14 DB load scripts say 1,2,3....14. I want a script to call each script automatically, and after completion of every script, it needs to track the logfile and mail that log file to a group.and again it should run the next script in sequence 1,2,3...14
Please help me,need... (1 Reply)
Unix Gurus,
I have a shell script which has few "echo" statements. I am trying to create a logfile where all the outputs of the echo statement sare stored.
I will have to add this as the final step in the existing script so that everytime the script runs, a logfile is generated with all the... (1 Reply)
Hello,
How to tail -f multi logfile from multi path in 1 shell script.
File & Path
/usr/home/localmode/mode110l/log/logic/number110/digit110_digit110m4_2013050210.txt
/usr/home/localmode/mode103l/log/logic/number103/digit103_digit103m4_2013050210.txt... (4 Replies)
Hi,
I want to read a live log file line by line and considering those line which are newly added to file
Below code I am using, which read line but as soon as it read new line from log file its starts processing from very first line of file.
tail -F /logs/COMMON-ERROR.log | while read... (11 Replies)
Hello,
I have been working on script which need to generate an alert based upon live logs. If string is found then an alert mail must triggered.
tail -n -0 -F works fine to redirect the each latest line from live logs file to grep a pattern for matching but it seems to be not working on... (7 Replies)
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mtailrc
mtailrc(5) User Manuals mtailrc(5)NAME
mtailrc - Configuration file for monkeytail
DESCRIPTION
A monkeytail configuration uses Apache-style syntax to declare "groups" of files to be tailed.
Best explained with an example:
<group testgroup>
prefix 'server2: '
sudo yes
<file>
filename /var/log/apache2/access.log
prefix 'server1: '
host server1.example.com
</file>
<file>
filename /var/log/apache2/access.log
host server2.example.com
sudo no
</file>
</group>
OPTIONS
All options can be either put inside a group or file block. Options inside a file block override those in the group block.
filename filename
filename defines the filename for this block.
host remote-host (optional)
host defines that this block's file is to be tailed on a remote server.
sudo yes|no|1|0
sudo is a boolean specifying whether this file should be tailed as root. This option is supported for both local and remote files
(in both cases you will potentially be prompted for your password).
prefix "string: "
prefix allows you to specify a short string that will be prepended to every line that is displayed for that given file.
FILES
~/.mtailrc - user specific monkeytail config
SEE ALSO mtail(1), tail(1)AUTHOR
Martyn Smith <martyn@dollyfish.net.nz>
mtail May 2008 mtailrc(5)