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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

How to open live-updating log in terminal


tail [options]

#tail -f [your log file]

It's updating live feed in the terminal

#tail -f /var/adm/messages
Nov  6 13:38:50 NTU-HQ-GLOBAL dhcpd: [ID 702911 local0.info] DHCPREQUEST for 50.200.0.144 (172.16.0.2) from 00:c0:89:15:10:28 via 50.200.0.1
Nov  6 13:38:50 NTU-HQ-GLOBAL dhcpd: [ID 702911 local0.info] DHCPACK on 50.200.0.144 to 00:c0:89:15:10:28 via 50.200.0.1
Nov  6 13:40:00 NTU-HQ-GLOBAL sendmail[7308]: [ID 702911 mail.crit] My unqualified host name (NTU-HQ-GLOBAL) unknown; sleeping for retry
Nov  6 13:40:00 NTU-HQ-GLOBAL sendmail[7313]: [ID 702911 mail.crit] My unqualified host name (NTU-HQ-GLOBAL) unknown; sleeping for retry