Comments on: How To Tail (View) Multiple Files on UNIX / Linux Console

By: Maroon Ibrahim

Maroon Ibrahim — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:49:23 +0000

Better to switch to Debian ;)

By: sanjay Katiyar

sanjay Katiyar — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:08:05 +0000

Is there any equivalent command in Fedora/CentOS?

By: Intellignix

Intellignix — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:28:46 +0000

I could this when I am monitoring logs on my log server. Thank you!

intelliginix.com

By: kpb

kpb — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:07:34 +0000

Great tip !! I’m going to try this out tonight !

By: Adam Dempsey

Adam Dempsey — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:44:47 +0000

Is it possible to view multiple files but in one view? Eg view the same log file from 5 different machines but all as one?

For example

Log Line from Machine 1
Log Line from Machine 1
Log Line from Machine 2
Log Line from Machine 4
Log Line from Machine 2

Is this possible?

By: Stephen Clayton

Stephen Clayton — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:59:18 +0000

Thanks for the post on Multitail. I’ve been looking for a tool like this for a long time…

By: theToaster

theToaster — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:41:25 +0000

there is a “typo”:
# multilog /var/log/messages /var/log/auth.log
should be better multitail ;)

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:43:01 +0000

@ Meskalyn, thanks for the heads up.

@xiao_haozi, May be your server is not so busy…

By: Meskalyn

Meskalyn — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:26:53 +0000

Just a little mistake on FreeBSD : you wrote :
portsnap featch update
It’s fetch

By: xiao_haozi

xiao_haozi — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:52:47 +0000

Edit: sorry missed adding ‘MINUTES’ to my last comment… my apologies.

By: xiao_haozi

xiao_haozi — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:51:51 +0000

Been trying multitail off and on for a while now…but one thing that has always got me:
when viewing say access logs for webserver it has a good 5-10 delay it seems.

By: Henrik Nordvik

Henrik Nordvik — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:45:28 +0000

Thanks for the tip!
Don’t forget xtail. I use it to monitor hits to multiple sites with logstalgia and other programs that are designed for regular tail, but works great with xtail too.