True...but you don't have to tail all of the time. You can tail for a few seconds, then stop and analyze the log. But you're right in that filtering is a glaring omission in BareTail. Highlighting helps, but filtering would be best...especially with a toggle feature that allows you to inspect filtered out areas surrounding the results.
Darin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:17 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Huge Log Files and Queuemgr.exe showing high utilization over 70% average >BareTail also works great and allows you to view the file in realtime. > ><http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/>http://www.baremetalsoft.com/bareta il/ for high-volume logs, tailing is useless as the lines scroll past too fast too read. But combining tailing with filtering tail -f /path/to/logfile | egrep -i "smtpd.*(string1|string2|string3)" would only show "SMTPD" lines which also contain either of the 3 strings. It looks like baretail doesn't do any filtering, and Ipswitch has chosen a file open mode that doesn't permit tail.exe (from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net) to tail (it can open and read the file, but cannot -follow the added lines). In my DNS classes, we use tail.exe in a cmd window to tail the BIND log (which is written in a filemode that allows reading). Len _____________________________________________________________________ http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training : Denver; NYC; San Jose http://IMGate.MEIway.com : free anti-spam gateway, runs on 1000's of sites To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
