Re: single instance of multilog for multiple processes

Richard Lucassen <[email protected]> Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:36:25 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.syslog
Organization XAQ Systems
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:02:55 +0930
Daryl Tester <[email protected]> wrote:

> > 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're right. Years ago I've played with such a tool. And the
unexpected result of merging these four logs together is the use of
"grep" :)

I'll run four separate logs. In the end it's better :)

R.

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