Agreed, however you can use less in "follow-mode" (press capital "F", although you then have to ctrl-C to regain scrollback... less is more since you can highlight by regex IIRC.
Customizing screen's control keys might also help, although I'm sure it would annoy the hell out of anyone who knows the defaults  8^P
Mastery of screen doesn't come easy... but I've found every attempt worthwhile.

    Ben

PS - KBob, as far as it being painful -- you gotta take off those electrodes, man!


On 8/4/06, Bob Miller < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ben Barrett wrote:

> Using GNU screen might be a good option here; you could tailor the .screenrc
> file to monitor the 2 logfiles in a split console, re-attachable of
> course...
> unless you really want the output glommed together.  Alternatively, you
> could use syslog and even fwd the output across the network to another
> system,
> which could be a worm storage device if the logs potentially hold forensic
> data.

The problem with screen is that it's painful to scroll back.

Once upon a time my officemate had set up a console to tail several
logs and print each in a different color.  I think he wrote the script
himself, though.

--
Bob Miller                              K<bob>
                                         [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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