[j-nsp] tailing logs

[Sean Capshaw]

Not exactly but close:

lab at R100> show log messages | ?
Possible completions:
  count                Count occurrences
  display              Display additional information
  except               Show only text that does not match a pattern
  find                 Search for the first occurrence of a pattern
  hold                 Hold text without exiting the --More-- prompt
  last                 Display the last screen of lines in the output
  match                Show only text that matches a pattern
  no-more              Don't paginate output
  request              Make system-level requests
  resolve              Resolve IP addresses
  save                 Save output text to a file
  trim                 Trim specified number of columns from start of line
lab at R100> show log messages | last
Dec  3 14:00:00 M20 newsyslog[713]: logfile turned over
Dec  3 14:00:47 M20 mgd[710]: UI_COMMIT: user 'root' performed 'commit'
Dec  3 14:01:31 R100 mgd[710]: UI_COMMIT: user 'root' performed 'commit'
Dec  3 14:01:34 R100 dcd[561]: 'include "/var/etc/dcd.vrrp.conf"'
Dec  3 14:01:34 R100 dcd[561]: 'include "/var/etc/dcd.irsd.conf"'
Dec  3 14:01:34 R100 dcd[561]: couldn't open include file
'/var/etc/dcd.irsd.conf'
Dec  3 14:01:44 R100 /kernel: fxp0: link media UP 100Mb / full-duplex
Dec  3 14:02:09 R100 mgd[710]: UI_LOAD_EVENT: user 'root' is performing a
'load override'
Dec  3 14:02:18 R100 mgd[710]: UI_COMMIT: user 'root' performed 'commit'

lab at R100>

Thanks
Sean

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Christopher Morrow wrote:

>
> On Dec 20, 2003, at 6:31 PM, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
>
> > Ok this one has been driving me nuts for a while... Is there a way to
> > tail
> > a log file from the cli? Right now it seems like you either have to
> > drop
> > to a shell to use tail, or jump to the end in more if you don't want to
> > do a "-f".
> >
>
> does 'monitor start <logfile>' not meet your needs?
>
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