[Gllug] shell-fu to monitor multiple log files simultaneously?

[Richard Lewis]

At Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:22:00 +0100,
Thomi Richards wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm logging in remotely to a Linux server, on which I would like to
> monitor three separate log files. Currently I open three separate
> shells on my machine, SSH into the target machine three times, and
> then do a "tail -f", and finally arrange the three shells so i can see
> everything at once. What I'm after is a command that lets me achieve
> the same thing - monitor multiple log files with tail, but have them
> arranges in columns / rows within a single terminal. Is this possible?
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Oh, and bonus points if I can do the same thing on a mac, which has a
> subset of the same unix tools...
> 
Do you use GNU screen? It has split screen functionality. And you can
detach and log out. And the log in and re-attach whenever you like.
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