Re: root-tail or newer?
ebi@ozob.net)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 11:07:03 -0500 (CDT)
On 9 Aug 1999, Doug Alcorn wrote:
> Rick Giguere <rick@rifan.com> writes:
>
> > It works with but one problem ...
> >
> > I'm not actually tailing the logs on this machine. I need to ssh into
> > another machine and run tail on THAT machine.
> >
> > Everything comes up fine ... except that I have no way to enter keystrokes
> > into the root window aterm/ssh in order to log in and start tail.
> >
> >
> > ...Rick
>
> I know this kindof defeats the purpose of ssh, but you could use expect to
> do what you want. Then launch the expect script on the aterm command line.
>
> expect++
>
> Also, autoexpect will help you write the expect script. Also, Also, I
> use colortail for monitoring several log files in the same aterm. You
> can find source for colortail on fm.
> --
> (__) Doug Alcorn
> oo / doug@lathi.net
> |_/
What is fm?
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