Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 17:07:23 +0200 From: Martin Karlsson <mk-freebsd@bredband.net> To: lewiz <purple@lewiz.info>, FreeBSD-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: colorized tail. Message-ID: <20030705150723.GA90635@c-5cc170d5.bredbandsbolaget.se> In-Reply-To: <20030704181547.GA24153@lewiz.org> References: <20030704181547.GA24153@lewiz.org>
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Hi, * lewiz <purple@lewiz.info> [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
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