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MTAIL(1) User Commands 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 re- mote 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 stan- dard 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> mtail May 2008 MTAIL(1)
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