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skoda 06-11-2014 02:00 PM
Tail help
 
Hai folks

i want to run the following as a tail -f. i mean i want to watch ftp logins in our server real time. how to do that?


Quote:
#egrep 'ftpd.*is now logged in' /var/log/messages | grep -v '__cpanel'
:)

szboardstretcher 06-11-2014 02:05 PM
Moving it around a bit and adding the line buffering option should do it:

Code:
tail -f /var/log/messages | grep --line-buffered 'ftpd.*is now logged in'

skoda 06-11-2014 03:25 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by szboardstretcher (Post 5186510)
Moving it around a bit and adding the line buffering option should do it:

Code:
tail -f /var/log/messages | grep --line-buffered 'ftpd.*is now logged in'
YOur a genius!!!


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