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Een introductie tot MultiTail
Een introductie tot MultiTail
Introductie
Wat is MultiTail?
Met MultiTail kan men een of meerdere logfiles bekijken netzoals bij tail. Het verschil met het originele tail-programma is dat het meerdere vensters in het console-venster maakt (met ncurses) met in ieder venster een logfile. Verder kan het 2 of meer logfiles samenvoegen in 'n venster. Logfiles kunnen ook met kleur getoond worden (selectie m.b.h.v. reguliere expressies) om zo sneller te herkennen wat belangrijk is en wat niet. Logregels kunnen ook weggefiltert worden, wederom met reguliere expressies. Deze reguliere expressies kunnen via interactieve menu's toegevoegd en verwijderd worden. Ook extra vensters laten tonen kan zonder het programma te verlaten. Niet alleen logfiles kunnen bekeken worden, ook de uitvoer van shellscripts en programma's kunnen worden getoond. MultiTail kan daarbij de functionaliteit van watch nadoen.
Waarom deze tekst?
Als men MultiTail start zonder parameters, dan verschijnt er een leeg scherm met alleen een lijstje van de toetsen die men kan indrukken op dat moment of wanneer het programma loopt. Men kan er ook voor kiezen MultiTail te starten met de '-h' parameter, dat geeft een overzicht van alle mogelijke parameters. Het zijn geen kleine lijsten en dat kan wat intimiderend zijn. Ook is de help in het programma en in de man-page misschien niet voldoende, daarom is deze tekst geschreven. Mocht er dan toch nog wat onduidelijk zijn, schrijf me dan op het volgende e-mail adres: 
De Basis
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An introduction to MultiTail
An introduction to MultiTail
Introduction
What is MultiTail?
MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail
program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your
console (with ncurses). Merging of 2 or even more logfiles is possible. It
can also use colors while displaying the logfiles (through regular
expressions), for faster recognition of what is important and what not. It
can also filter lines (again with regular expressions). It has interactive
menus for editing given regular expressions and deleting and adding
windows. One can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and
other software. When viewing the output of external software, MultiTail
can mimic the functionality of tools like 'watch' and such.
Why this text?
When you start multitail without any parameters, it clears the screen and
shows a couple of keys you can press together with a short explanation what
they do. You can then press any of those keys or 'x', 'q' or 'CTRL'+'C' to
exit the program. If you like to know what commandlineparameters can be
given, start multitail with the '-h' parameter.
The "help" that is given with the methods described above might not be
sufficient, that's why this text was written. If there is still anything
not clear after reading this, do not hesitate to contact me at the
following e-mail address: folkert@vanheusden.com
The Basics
The most trivial use of MultiTail is as follows:
multitail [-i] file
This shows the file 'file' in your terminal-window. At the bottom, a line
(the statusline) is displayed with the name of the file, its size and the
date/time of when the last time the file changed. You can make this status-
line static (not updated) with the '-d' commandline parameter. With '-D' no
statusline is displayed at all.
You only need to specify the '-i' when the filename starts with a dash ('-').
Something a little more complex is this:
multitail [-i] file1 [-i] file2
This splits your terminalwindow in two windows. In each window, one file is
displayed. Both windows have a statusline giving info. The window with
'file1' is displayed above the window with 'file2'. Instead of above each
other, you can also have them displayed side by side. For that, you can
enter the parameter '-s' on the commandline or press the 'v' key while the
program is running.
Press keys 0 to 9 for adding a thick red line at the current position to window
0 to 9.
Scrolling
Of course you can scroll in the shown files. For that, press the 'b' key.
When you're viewing multiple files, you'll first get a fileselector. Then a
window is displayed with the buffered contents of the selected file
(=window). You can then scroll with the cursorkeys and the page-up and
pagedown key. Press 'x' or 'q' to exit this window. You cannot scroll the
whole file, only the last 100 lines. To reset this limit to something
bigger (or smaller), press the 'm' key. You will then be asked to enter a
new value, e.g. 1000. This parameter can also be set from the commandline
with the '-m value' parameter. With '-m' you set the limit for the next
file, with '-M value' you'll set this parameter for all following files
on the commandline. When you press the 'm'-key, the current buffer is
cleared. So it is also a replacement for pressing the enter key a few times
when using 'tail -f' to view a file.
Merging Files
Then there's the '-I' commandline parameter. It is the same as '-i', only
'-I' merges two or more files together. For example:
multitail [-i] file1 -I file2
a reallife example:
multitail /var/log/apache/access.log -I /var/log/apache/error.log
These two examples will merge the output of the given files into one
window. This can be usefull with, for example, the files given in the
second example: with this example you see what happend just before an
error appeared in the Apache errorlog.
Viewing Output of External Programs
As I mentioned in the foreword, one can not only view files with
MultiTail, also the output of other programs (scripts/executables/etc.)
can be put inside one or more windows. To make this happen, you need to
use the '-l' switch. For example:
multitail -l ls
another example:
multitail -l "ping localhost"
As you can see, you need to add doublequotes around the command when it
needs parameters, otherwhise MultiTail would not be able to recognize
what parameters are intended for the selected program or for MultiTail
itself.
You might have tried the example with the ls-command. You then saw that
MultiTail automatically closes the window when the external command has
finished. There are a few options you can use to control this behaviour.
For example the '-z' parameter: when given, the window is just closed,
the screen redrawed and MultiTail goes on without the popup window
telling you that the program ended.
Another option is: '-r interval': this will cause the command to be
run every 'interval' seconds. Instead of '-r interval' also the '-R interval'
option is available: when fed to MultiTail, it makes it run the next
command with an interval of 'interval' seconds displaying only the
difference with the previous run of the command! So if you run MultiTail
like this:
multitail -R 3 -l "netstat -p tcp"
you will see state-changes for every TCP-connection: new connections
and connections getting closed.
As with '-I file', '-L command' also merges the output of the
external command to the previous file or command. Yes: output of
commands can be safely merged with logfiles. Multiple commands, multiple
logfiles, most things you can think of are possible.
Colors
When you have been watching logfiles scrolling by, it can get a little
though after a while to still recognize what is important and what not.
Because of that, MultiTail has the ability to display logfiles in color.
When you give the '-c' parameter, the next given file or command is
showed in color. It decides what color to use by looking at the whole
log-line. If you want it to only use at the programname causing that
logline (when monitoring syslog logfiles for example), you can use the
'-cs' switch. The last option is the '-cS colorscheme' switch. As
parameter it needs the name of a colorscheme. The colorschemes are read
from multitail.conf. In multitail.conf you set by entering regular
expressions what color to use for what "patterns". By default, MultiTail
looks for multitail.conf in the current directory and in the /etc directory.
With the '-z' parameter you can explicitly define what file it should use.
An example:
colorscheme:postfix
cs_re:yellow:status=sent
cs_re:magenta:queue active
The first line names the current colorscheme. The 'cs_re'-lines define
combinations of regular expressions and a color. With the first 'cs_re'-
line you define that if MultiTail encounters the string 'status=sent' in
a logline that it should print it in the color yellow. The next line
defines that the string 'queue active' must be printed in magenta.
Another example, a little more complex:
colorscheme:syslog
cs_re:green:\[|\]
cs_re:blue:^... .. ..:..:..
The first 'cs_re'-line sets all occurences of '[' or ']' to green and
all lines starting with a date in the format 'Mon DD HH:MM:SS' in blue.
For more details on regular expressions: o'Reilly has few books on this topic.
One last thing on colors: if you use '-C' (uppercase 'C') instead of '-c', all following
files will use the parameters you specify at that time, unless you override them with a new
'-cx' or '-Cx' parameter.
Filtering using regular expressions
For filtering MultiTail uses regular expressions. To keep things simple, it uses them the
exact same way as 'grep' does: '-e' says: a regular expression follows and '-v' says: invert
it. Since version 3.5.0 this has changed somewhat: if you want to match the lines that do NOT
have a certain pattern, use -ev.
Examples:
multitail -e "gnu-pop3d" /var/log/messages
multitail -v -e "ssh" -v -e "gnu-pop3d" -e "localhost" /var/log/messages
The first example shows only lines from /var/log/messages which have the string "gnu-pop3d" somewhere in them. The second example only shows lines which do not have the string "ssh" and not have the string "gnu-pop3d" and DO HAVE the string "localhost" in them.
Miscellaneous Options
There are a few other options not fitting elsewhere, these are:
| -f | This makes MultiTail follow the file. In case the original file
gets renamed and a new file is created with the original filename, MultiTail will start
watching the file with the original filename (the one you entered). |
| -u seconds | When using MultiTail over a slow link (a modem connection or
maybe even over HAM) you might want to have a little less frequent updates. With this parameter you
set how frequently MultiTail updates the screen. The default is immediately. |
| -H interval | If you have a connection to some host (on which
you're using MultiTail) which gets automatically disconnected when nothing happens for a
while, you can use '-H'. When used, MultiTail moves the cursor around the screen generating
traffic, keeping your line up. |
| -V | In case you're wondering what version of MultiTail you're using,
you can start it with the '-V' option. It'll then display its version and exit. You can
also press the 'i' key while it is running. |
Is that all?
Not everything was covered in this manual. For a complete list of options and keys
you can press while MultiTail runs, have a look at the man-page, the output of the '-h'
commandline parameter and the help when you press 'h'-key while the program runs.
And let's not forget the sourcecode!
The latest version of MultiTail can always be found here: http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/
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