From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 5 08:07:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF2CD37B401 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 08:07:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mf1.bredband.net (mf1.bredband.net [195.54.106.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 388954401A for ; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 08:07:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mk-freebsd@bredband.net) Received: from c-5cc170d5.036-23-6f72652.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se ([213.112.193.92]) by mf1.bredband.net with ESMTP <20030705150728.PEFJ8361.mf1@c-5cc170d5.036-23-6f72652.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se>; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:07:28 +0200 Received: from c-5cc170d5.036-23-6f72652.cust.bredbandsbolaget.se (localhost [127.0.0.1])(8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h65F7S7o070589; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:07:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mk-freebsd@bredband.net) Received: (from martink@localhost) (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h65F7NMX070588; Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:07:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mk-freebsd@bredband.net) Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:07:23 +0200 From: Martin Karlsson To: lewiz , FreeBSD-questions Message-ID: <20030705150723.GA90635@c-5cc170d5.bredbandsbolaget.se> Mail-Followup-To: lewiz , FreeBSD-questions References: <20030704181547.GA24153@lewiz.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030704181547.GA24153@lewiz.org> X-Powered-by: FreeBSD X-PGP-Keyid: 9C924660 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5970 BE22 2C33 4D8F 53FD 7E34 66FF 9332 9C92 4660 X-PGP-Key: http://www.krutov.org/martin_karlsson.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Subject: Re: colorized tail. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2003 15:07:32 -0000 Hi, * lewiz [2003-07-04 19.15 +0100]: > Hi, > > I've seen a few people that have tail outputs on their desktop (root > window) all nice, transparent and even colorized. I've found roottail > which does the basics (tail -f's a log straight to the rootwindow), but > I wanted to know how I could colorize the output? I've seen colortail, > but the only way to get this to work is using an aterm, etc. Is there > anything like a colorroottail in existence? I'm not sure if it would work, but you could perhaps try using /usr/ports/sysutils/colorize to create a colorised copy of a logfile, and pass that file to /usr/ports/sysutils/roottail? Hope this helps, -- Martin Karlsson