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

last updated February 9, 2009 in data center, Debian Linux, Download of the day, fedora linux, File system, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, GNU/Open source, Howto, Linux, Linux Log Management, Monitoring, package management, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Suse Linux, Sys admin, Tip of the day, UNIX

The tail command is one of the best tool to view log files in a real time using tail -f /path/to/log.file syntax on a Unix-like systems. The program MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). This is one of those dream come true program for UNIX sys admin job. You can browse through several log files at once and do various operations like search for errors and more.

pssh: Run Command On Multiple SSH Servers

last updated November 1, 2008 in Debian Linux, Download of the day, GNU/Open source, Howto, HP-UX, Linux, Linux distribution, Linux Log Management, Linux login control, Linux Scalability, Networking, OpenBSD, OS X, RedHat/Fedora Linux, Ubuntu Linux, UNIX

I’ve already written about tentakel tool and shell script hack to run a single command on multiple Linux / UNIX / BSD server. This is useful to save time and run UNIX commands on multiple machines. Linux.com has published an article about a new tool called pssh:

If you want to increase your productivity with SSH, you can try a tool that lets you run commands on more than one remote machine at the same time. Parallel ssh, Cluster SSH, and ClusterIt let you specify commands in a single terminal window and send them to a collection of remote machines where they can be executed.

Linux Configure Netconsole To Log Messages Over UDP Network

last updated July 2, 2008 in CentOS, Debian Linux, File system, FreeBSD, Gentoo Linux, GNU/Open source, Hardware, kernel, Linux, Linux distribution, Linux Log Management, Security, Sys admin, Tips, Troubleshooting, Ubuntu Linux

Linux netconsole kernel module allows dmesg output to be transmitted via the syslogd network. It is kernel-level network logging over udp allowing debugging of problem where disk logging fails and serial consoles are impractical. This is a step-by-step mini howto about netconsole configuration under Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora and Debian Linux.