Re:Why are we still tailing log files?
by mboerwink on Thursday January 20, 2022 @11:20AM
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I personally replaced tailing logs with lnav (lnav.org, also in Debian repos). Coloration, decompression, filtering, etc. with no learning curve made it an easy transition for me after hearing about it on HN. It isn't nearly so featured as a log aggregator like splunk, but it was a total tail replacement for me.
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Ha, hadn't seen lnav before. Looks interesting. Proves my point, tailing will never die. :-)
Well, now that I look it, maybe it's not exactly a tailing tool. Interesting nonetheless.
Can you elaborate on why you don't think it's a tailing tool? lnav monitors the files it was pointed at and will load new data as it is appended or reload the file if it has been overwritten. Also, if you are scrolled all the way to the bottom of the view, it should automatically scroll the view to keep the latest messages in the view.