Good day, folks!

 

Just wanted to pop in and mention that I've been using "Multitail" for a awhile as a log analyzer. Works a treat!

For those who are interested, just follow the steps here:

 

1) download SlackPack   http://ftp.arm.slackware.com/slacky/slackware-12.0/system/multitail/5.2.1/multitail-5.2.1-i686-1sl.tgz

2) Save to "/boot/extra"

3) Reboot or run "installpkg /boot/extra/multitail*" to install.

 

Then you can craft your own shell script to monitor your logfiles, here's what I am using:

 

#!/bin/sh

#clear the screen
echo -n -e "\033[H\033[2J"

#makes a 2-column window with 2 windows on the left and 4 on the right
multitail -s 2 -sn 2,4 -ci white /mnt/extra/plugins/plex/Library/Application\ Support/Plex\ Media\ Server/Logs/Plex\ Media\ Server.log -ci yellow /mnt/extra/plugins/sickbeard/Logs/sickbeard.log -ci green -e "INFO" /mnt/extra/plugins/potato/logs/CouchPotato.log -ci cyan /mnt/extra/plugins/sabnzbd/logs/sabnzbd.log -ci blue,white /mnt/extra/minecraft/logs/latest.log -ci yellow,red /var/log/syslog

 

This shows me one window with a tailing view of:  Plex Media Server, Sickbeard on the left and CouchPotato, SAB, Minecraft and Syslog on the right.

Screenshot:

 

 

Use it if you find it handy, I love being able to see all the logs I need on screen all the time

Those of you who are handy with SED and other cmdline tools, there are lots of things you can do with this program for color highlighting.

 

Share your customization

Any chance there's a 64bit version of this floating around somewhere?

Any chance there's a 64bit version of this floating around somewhere?

 

I haven't seen one...

I would love something like this for V6....quick google search can't seem to find anything!!

It seems to me an easy way out of this would be to Create a Slackware 14.1 64-bit VM ncluding development tools, and then simply build from source.  That would also allow for any other desired package to be built.

 

I might have a go at doing this for myself over the weekend.  If I do I will keep notes on anything that comes up when creating the VM in case others want to do the same.

It seems to me an easy way out of this would be to Create a Slackware 14.1 64-bit VM ncluding development tools, and then simply build from source.  That would also allow for any other desired package to be built.

 

I might have a go at doing this for myself over the weekend.  If I do I will keep notes on anything that comes up when creating the VM in case others want to do the same.

 

I have not yet succeeded in creating a Slackware 14.1 64-bit VM, but along the way, I learned I can chroot into my not-quite-a-VM filesystem and build packages.  Attached is a multitail 64-bit package (remove the .txt extension after download). It works on unRAID 6 beta4.

 

Edit: fixed typo

multitail-5.2.13-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz.txt