tail -f on 4 logs and display output in one terminal window

[email protected] ("Emmanuel. M. Decarie") Tue, 28 Aug 2001 11:43:02 -0400
Newsgroups perl.macperl.anyperl
Message-ID <a051010a9b7b16699442e@[192.168.0.2]>
Hello,

On my FreeBSD box with KDE, I have 4 terminal windows opened to 
follow via tail -f the evolutions of somes logs (like messages, 
httpd-access.log, customs scripts that produce a log, etc...).

I think it could be straightforward to use Perl/Tk using fileevent to 
display in the same window 4  different logs in their own section of 
the main window in real time (I'm a Perl/Tk newbie)

But then I thought that it could be more simple and portable to just 
display the output of tail -f on these 4 logs in the terminal window. 
My problem is that I don't know if there is a way to make fixed 
regions in the terminal window a little bit like what I think Perl/Tk 
call "frame" or when you split a window in vi.

What I want is a terminal window that look like this:

  -----------------------
|  output tail-f  log 1 |
  -----------------------
|  output tail-f  log 2 |
  -----------------------
|  output tail-f  log 3 |
  -----------------------
|  output tail-f  log 4 |
  -----------------------

Each regions are fixed and don't move, but inside each region you get 
the output of tail -f.

Any suggestions?

TIA

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