Re: single instance of multilog for multiple processes

Richard Lucassen wrote:

>> If you have timestamps, then man (1) sort is your friend.

> I know. But "tail -F current" doesn't work. I use these logs not for
> "watching what has happened" but for "follow what happens". And as
> there are 4 processes involved I'd like to keep them together in 1 log.

Ah, realtime monitoring.  Maybe you want one of those tail replacement
commands that does all this and handles rotated files as well for you.
Not that I've used any, but google shows a few candidates.

> You can ask "why not write to syslog?".

I'm not likely to.  :-/


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