Hi,

Is there a similar program like 'watch' in BSD/Linux for Solaris?
I just want a program that can watch a command like tail on a file to
check for changes.


BR,
Nergal

nergal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a similar program like 'watch' in BSD/Linux for Solaris?
> I just want a program that can watch a command like tail on a file to
> check for changes.

I'm not that familiar with BSD or Linux, so can you explain what "watch
a command" means in more detail? Do you mean trace system calls etc.?
Then there is truss for that in Solaris.

Thommy M. Malmström schrieb:
> nergal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a similar program like 'watch' in BSD/Linux for Solaris?
>> I just want a program that can watch a command like tail on a file to
>> check for changes.
You should get it on http://sunfreeware.com/
>
> I'm not that familiar with BSD or Linux, so can you explain what "watch
> a command" means in more detail? Do you mean trace system calls etc.?
> Then there is truss for that in Solaris.
Snippet from man:
watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

"nergal" <nergal@nergal.se> writes:

> I just want a program that can watch a command like tail on a file to
> check for changes.

Try "less /path/to/file" then press "Shift-F".

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Mike Roetgers wrote:
> Thommy M. Malmström schrieb:
>> nergal wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there a similar program like 'watch' in BSD/Linux for Solaris?
>>> I just want a program that can watch a command like tail on a file to
>>> check for changes.
> You should get it on http://sunfreeware.com/
>>
>> I'm not that familiar with BSD or Linux, so can you explain what
>> "watch a command" means in more detail? Do you mean trace system calls
>> etc.? Then there is truss for that in Solaris.
> Snippet from man:
> watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen

Please forgive me, but can you give an example? Is it like at or cron?

On 2007-03-29, Thommy M. Malmström <thommy.m.malmstrom@gmail.com> wrote:
> nergal wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a similar program like 'watch' in BSD/Linux for Solaris?
>> I just want a program that can watch a command like tail on a file to
>> check for changes.
>
> I'm not that familiar with BSD or Linux, so can you explain what "watch
> a command" means in more detail? Do you mean trace system calls etc.?
> Then there is truss for that in Solaris.

Basically 'watch' runs a command periodically and shows the output.

'watch' should be available at www.blastwave.org or sunfreeware.com

regards,

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On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:59:31 GMT, Thommy M. Malmström <thommy.m.malmstrom@gmail.com> wrote:
| Mike Roetgers wrote:
|> Thommy M. Malmström schrieb:
|>> nergal wrote:
|>>> Hi,
|>>>
|>>> Is there a similar program like 'watch' in BSD/Linux for Solaris?
|>>> I just want a program that can watch a command like tail on a file to
|>>> check for changes.
|> You should get it on http://sunfreeware.com/
|>>
|>> I'm not that familiar with BSD or Linux, so can you explain what
|>> "watch a command" means in more detail? Do you mean trace system calls
|>> etc.? Then there is truss for that in Solaris.
|> Snippet from man:
|> watch - execute a program periodically, showing output fullscreen
|
| Please forgive me, but can you give an example? Is it like at or cron?


Imagine 'top' except running something other than 'ps' to produce the
output.


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nergal <nergal@nergal.se> wrote:
> Is there a similar program like 'watch' in BSD/Linux for Solaris?
> I just want a program that can watch a command like tail on a file to
> check for changes.

I like wots ( http://post.queensu.ca/~curtis/tools/ ) a lot. Using
it since many years; I feed all the logfiles into wots, and let it
distill the really important messages.

mp.
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nergal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a similar program like 'watch' in BSD/Linux for Solaris?
> I just want a program that can watch a command like tail on a file to
> check for changes.

I like a freeware program called 'xtail'. You can say "xtail *.log" and
it will notify you when any change happens to any of *.log. Or you can
say "xtail <some-dir>" and it will pick up and monitor any files found
there, including any files created while it's running.

HT

On 28 Mar 2007 23:39:28 -0700 "nergal" <nergal@nergal.se> wrote:
> Is there a similar program like 'watch' in BSD/Linux for Solaris?

Yes, it's called 'watch'.
-frank