[techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] cool commands

[Henti Smith]

if you don't want to see the sendmail stuff ... look in /etc/syslogd.conf
and add

mail.*                                                  /var/log/maillog

if you want to .. you can even remove mail from 

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none                          /var/log/messages

an add it to the above to get .. 

mail.*;mail.none
/var/log/maillog

Henti / bain 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Hall-Beyer [mailto:manuka at nerdherd.net]
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 1999 10:11 AM
> To: grrltalk at linuxchix.org
> Cc: techtalk at linuxchix.org
> Subject: [techtalk] Re: [grrltalk] cool commands
> 
> 
> Crossposted to techtalk, let's resume discussion there
> 
> On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Kristine Budde wrote:
> 
> > Best of tail (or head) is the option "-f". If you watch a 
> growing file
> > (e.g. log file), it always shows the current last (first) 
> lines. You can
> > terminate by hitting ctrl-c.
> 
> another thing I do rather frequently, is pipe the output of a tail -f
> command through a grep command, especially on system logs... 
> that lets me
> watch for specific log entries pertaining to, say, named, 
> without being
> annoyed by all the crap sendmail spews in there.
> 
> also real nice if you want to have several windows open, each 
> monitoring a
> specific daemon.
> 
> -Ian
> 
> --
> <cosmo> wow, this is kinda nifty. the win98 protocol stack is 
> like a chinese finger puzzle, twist and turn in the right places, 
> and it pops right off			--Seen on EFNet IRC
> 
> 
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