Hi

On my linuxmint server I have a number of text files that I'd like to display on a screen. These logfiles are read from a weather station, so with headlines like temperature, pressure, rel.humidity etc, I want to periodically update the values, let's say every 5 minute and show the last hour or so.
I should utilize the whole screen so the data have to be displayed in fixed rows and columns.

So I'm looking for non-commercial linux software to handle this. I have looked into Icinga, but this powerful software, seems like overkill for this task.

I'd appreciate any suggestion on possible linux software that I can look into.

Thanks!

Almost anything worth using may seem like overkill - to get something that displays exactly how you want generally requires flexibility which is found in solutions solving many varied needs.

But there are a plenty of other options listed on Wikipedia - probably some of those are closer to what you're after.

If you want super simple/lightweight, a script in awk/perl/python/etc could reformat the data combined with tail -F -s300 to display & refresh it on an interval.

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Welcome to LQ forums.

I am not familiar with WeeWX but it may be worth a look:
http://weewx.com/

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