Hi,

I'm looking for a root-tail like software, but maintened. Do you know
or use one ?

thx

Jérôme PRIOR wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a root-tail like software, but maintened. Do you know
> or use one ?
>
> thx

multitail ?

http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/

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> Jérôme PRIOR wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm looking for a root-tail like software, but maintened. Do you
> > know or use one ?
> >
> > thx
>
> multitail ?
>
> http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/
>

how explain ... root-tail do not use windows-manager or xterm : it tail
file on the "background of the desktop" see it in action :
http://asteroid.celeonet.fr/ex/thumb/icewm_idesk.png (the green text)

so multitail may be interresting but do not correspond to my objective.
thx

Jérôme PRIOR al scrîf:
> how explain ... root-tail do not use windows-manager or xterm : it tail
> file on the "background of the desktop" see it in action :
> http://asteroid.celeonet.fr/ex/thumb/icewm_idesk.png (the green text)
Take a look to conky or torsmo.

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> Jérôme PRIOR al scrîf:
> > how explain ... root-tail do not use windows-manager or xterm : it
> > tail file on the "background of the desktop" see it in action :
> > http://asteroid.celeonet.fr/ex/thumb/icewm_idesk.png (the green
> > text)
> Take a look to conky or torsmo.
>

no more. Conky/torsmo (I used it for a long time) monitor like gkrellm
do but on the background. I don't looking for a cpu temperature or mem
usage monitor :

I'm looking for a file monitor like do `tail -f file`
displaying output on the "desktop background" like ... like root-tail
but maintened as possible.

Thx for reminder me conky, but maybe for other use

\o_

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On Fri, 29 Dec 2006 12:14:34 +0100, Jérôme PRIOR wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a file monitor like do `tail -f file`
> displaying output on the "desktop background" like ... like root-tail
> but maintened as possible.
>

What's wrong with just doing `tail-f file` in a borderless,
transparent, term window? possibly with stacking layer of the window
lowered?

something like: Eterm -v -x -q -O -0 --buttonbar 0 --scrollbar 0 -e tail
- -F '/var/log/messages'

Brad


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> What's wrong with just doing `tail-f file` in a borderless,
> transparent, term window? possibly with stacking layer of the window
> lowered?
>
> something like: Eterm -v -x -q -O -0 --buttonbar 0 --scrollbar 0 -e
> tail
> - -F '/var/log/messages'

root-tail have more options : colorised output, multiple file, reverse
flood, ... try it, and you understand what I don't want to use a simply
term

thx \o_

xrootconsole?

(I extracted mine from some ubuntoid installation.)