Mike Egglestone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to write a script that would > output to the screen the latest contents of a log, > and continue to do so until I abort the script.
No need to write it yourself -- $ apt-cache show console-log Package: console-log Priority: optional Section: admin Installed-Size: 48 Maintainer: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Version: 0.5 Depends: less, run (>=0.9.2-4), console-tools Filename: pool/main/c/console-log/console-log_0.5_all.deb Size: 5000 MD5sum: fdded8c42d3b4e9322a9e2d3dcd608fe Description: Keeps a less syslog running on tty9 console-log keeps your syslog and your exim mainlog running in a less process on tty9/tty8. It also makes sure that this console is visible automatically after system boot so that a crashed system at least leaves the syslog readable on the console before reset. Using less makes searching, tagging and highlighting possible. Works great here (it's in the unstable distribution only, however). Greetings, joachim
