DaemonForums - Guides http://www.daemonforums.org// en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:06:57 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.daemonforums.org/images/misc/rss.jpg DaemonForums - Guides http://www.daemonforums.org// Automatic dual xterm setup for log file monitoring http://www.daemonforums.org//showthread.php?t=7912&goto=newpost Fri, 24 May 2013 00:51:13 GMT While testing a Apache webserver configuration, I became tired of setting up two xterms for monitoring both the /var/log/httpd-access and... While testing a Apache webserver configuration, I became tired of setting up two xterms for monitoring both the /var/log/httpd-access and /var/log/httpd-error.log files.

The following simple script does this now for me:

Code:
#!/bin/sh

# Set up two xterms
#  1) tail -f /var/log/httpd-access.log
#  2) tail -f /var/log/http-error.log

ACCESS='ssh j65nko.org "tail -f /var/log/httpd-access.log"'
ERROR='ssh j65nko.org "tail -f /var/log/httpd-error.log"'

# geometry (See X(7)  'GEOMETRY SPECIFICATIONS')
# WidthxHeight+X_offset+Y_offset
# Width and Height either in pixels or characters
# X_offset and Y_offset in pixels

# See xterm(1) for the other options

xterm -geometry 200x30+0+0  -bg black -fg green -e "${ACCESS}" &
xterm -geometry 200x30+0+500 -bg black -fg red  -e "${ERROR}" &
Please note that according to the xterm manual page. the -e option for specifiying the command needs to be the last one.

This script has been tested and is being used in Debian as you can see in the trimmed screenshot. ;)
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