Re: Multitail users, do you see your logs close?

On 2026-05-31 05:15, Darac Marjal wrote:
> On 24/05/2026 19:49, AC wrote:
>> Do any of you use Multitail to monitor your logs? Have you ever seen 
>> it randomly close some or all of the files you're monitoring for no 
>> apparent reason?
>>
>> Every one of my Debian installs does this randomly and I can't seem to 
>> figure out why. The program itself continues to run but all the 
>> windows/files within it close. This isn't happening on one Redhat 
>> machine that I use which uses the same Multitail configurations.
>>
>> I may have to resort to using just screen/tmux and custom scripts. But 
>> I like Multitail because I can customize things like highlighting in 
>> color or filtering unneeded text so I hope I can actually fix it.
>>
> I've seen this in the past year or so too, but haven't yet got around to 
> investigating. I have a script which runs (among other parameters) 
> "multitail ... -f /var/log/syslog -f /var/log/mail.log -I /var/log/ 
> dovecot.log -f /var/log/nginx/access.log". This runs in tmux, so I can 
> keep a tmux tab open and see all the logs streaming past. This script 
> used to be quite reliable, but something happened a while ago and now, 
> when I connect to tmux I can occasionally find one or more of the 
> multitail windows missing. "-f" is _supposed_ to follow the filename, 
> not the descriptor so _should_ work fine with logrotate.
> 
> It happens only occasionally, though, so it's usually easiest to just 
> quit and restart multitail.
> 

Mine are usually running in xterms and not using screen or tmux. It 
seems to happen at the same time every time so I'm thinking it's related 
to a log rotate or other timed event but I can't figure out what exactly 
kills it or why.