Good news guys. I will send this as a new topic so that it doesn't get missed. We got sidetracked and got to discussing colortail. It is a simple little tool for graphically coloring information. It doesn't compile in Mandrake 9.0. It gives errors. I've been in contact with the author and he was very good at responding and giving us a patch!! Woohoo, it works!!! Here is the response from him:
I put the patch on sourceforge in the colortail project there. Here's a direct link to the file: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/colortail/colortail-0.3.0-gcc3.patch.gz?download Now I have one more little dilema! I would LOVE to make this work on Mandrake security, which I'm currently running on my firewall. I get an error when I try. I thought I could just take the compiled one and run that, but nooooo... is there anyone out here that is an expert on the security release? On Saturday 30 November 2002 01:02 pm, Lorne wrote: > On Saturday 30 November 2002 12:05 pm, Vox wrote: > > Yes, that's that :) What I do is: > > > > - turn everything back to white (too many damn colors make it hard to > > notice things for me...the default config is a pain for my eyes) > > - Mark the name of my workstation in a dark color (same with other > > workstations and servers that log on my box, different color for > > each) - Mark the name of my firewall in a bright color > > - Mark the word "root" in bright red > > - Mark IPs in yellow > > - Mark the string DPT (destination port in iptables' logging) in > > yellow > > - Mark the word ATTACK in red > > > > That simple set of rules means that whenever I see red on the top of > > my screen, it's time for me to look up and see WTH is going on. The > > yellow markers allow me to find the important information faster. > > > > I run all of this from a script that gets run when I log into > > Enlightenment, and it's permanently etched on all my virtual > > desktops :) > > > > http://people.gnulinux.org.mx/vox/shot_06-10-02_013605.jpg > > > > That's a screenshot of how it looks like, running from a silly > > script that does this: > > Most excellent!!! > > > Eterm -O --cmod-blue 50 --cmod-green 50 --cmod-red 50 -x --no-cursor \ > > --scrollbar 0 --buttonbar 0 --name tail -e /home/vox/bin/tailer > > > > And tailer is: > > > > sudo -S colortail -f --lines=7 -q -k /etc/colortail/conf.messages \ > > /var/log/messages > > > > You can grab my conf.messages from: > > > > http://people.gnulinux.org.mx/vox/conf.messages > > > > Vox, who still hates sympa
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