MTAIL(1)

NAME
mtail - tail variant designed for web developers monitoring logfiles

SYNOPSIS
mtail [options] <file>...

DESCRIPTION

MonkeyTail allows a user to tail multiple files on both local and remote hosts and clearly marks inactivity by putting 5 newlines in the output whenever a pause in output over 3 seconds is detected.

MonkeyTail is implemented a fairly simple wrapper script around standard tail, ssh, and sudo.

OPTIONS

-q  Quiet mode

--quiet
    " "

-n  Output the last N lines of each file before tailing (defaults to 0)

<file>...
    Files to tail.

    These can specified in the following ways:

@<groupname>
    - expands the group (from .mtailrc) to a list of

    files to tail

<filename>
    - tails a local file.

+<filename>              - attempts to sudo and tail a local file (will
    prompt for pwd if required).

<remotehost>:<filename>
    - attempts to invoke tail via ssh on a remote

    host.

+<remotehost>:<filename> - attempts to invoke sudo tail via ssh on a
    remote host (will prompt for pwd if required).

SEE ALSO

mtailrc(5), tail(1)

AUTHOR

Martyn Smith <martyn@dollyfish.net.nz>