[CentOS] Log monitoring

Wed Jul 6 16:06:46 UTC 2011
Brunner, Brian T. <BBrunner at gai-tronics.com>

centos-bounces at centos.org wrote:
> Bowie Bailey wrote:
>> On 7/6/2011 5:37 AM, Fajar Priyanto wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Currently I do 'tail -f /var/log/messages | grep something' to
>>> monitor/tune in my iptables rules.
>>> 
>>> Based on your experience, is there any tools do that better like:
>>> - color
>>> - grepping multiple keywords
>>> - some statistic
>> 
>> I don't know about any tools for this, but I did want to point out
>> that grep can handle multiple keywords.
>> 
>> $ tail -f /var/log/messages | grep -e keyword1 -e keyword2
> -e keyword3
> <snip>
> Haven't used them, but cactus? splunk?
And I think you want -F (not -f) so your tail will follow the file
/var/log/messages across logrotates.


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