On Sun, 2 Mar 2003, Nick Rout wrote:

> Insanely cool!!!!!

I use these two:

tail --follow=name /var/log/messages | osd_cat -p bottom -c red -o 50 &
tail --follow=name /var/log/exim/mainlog | osd_cat -c red &

and because osd_cat doesn't interperet terminal escape characters, and
doesn't use a terminal anywhere, you're safe from these exploits:

http://www.digitaldefense.net/labs/papers/Termulation.txt

and check out the xosd xmms plugin...

( disclaimer: I'm the current maintainer of xosd :)

Tim Wright

Assistant Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
University of Canterbury

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~tnw13

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