Root-tail displays log files in the screen background - basically a graphical tail -f.
Root-tail displays log files in the X root window or another window. It can use different colours for different files, match log entries by regular expressions and more.
Some history about this fork: some time before the Cebit00, I got my hands on a program named root-tail. Its purpose is to display logfiles in different colours on your root-window. That is, it works just like tail -f.
Unfortunately, root-tail was thoroughly broken, so I fixed it and contacted its author. I never received a reply, so I decided to publish my modified version of root-tail here.
FILE | File Releases |
CVS | Browsable CVS module 'root-tail' |
CVS | Anonymous CVS: cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.schmorp.de/schmorpforge co root-tail |
IRC | Server irc.schmorp.de, channel #schmorpforge, user schmorp (say hi and wait a few minutes or hours, or /msg schmorp directly)) |
FILE | root-tail.man.html |
FILE | Changes |