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Re: "Has anyone seen a linux logfile viewer that tails a file,..."
I think I am going to give it a whack. I looked at the sources of Linux and BSD's tail utilities just in case there is a way to patch, but it is an entirely different kind of an algorithm. I have to say that BSD code is much nicer than Linux! I am often envious of BSD and maybe should switch....
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2023-06-26 · 1 year ago
🐙 norayr · 2023-06-27 at 01:39:
my understanding is that if bsds appeal by being minimalistic and simple, then it is necessary to note that probably the minimalism is not intentional. it is an outcome of lower interest from people, industry and corporations. these parties had interests in 'linux world', if that world exists, and made useful to them contributions to the code.
whenever bsds have the opportunity to be not simple, they aren't: dtrace and zfs are not the simplest codebases ever written, neither the smallest.
now 'back to 'linux world', i doubt that it exists as separate entity: in bsds we use programs written for linux on linux. with same dependencies as in linux.
the borders between linux and bsds arent that clear.
🐙 norayr · 2023-06-27 at 01:47:
the base is smaller than it is usually in case of linux distributions. but well, not as small as in case of alpine?
and when you add software, you get all the deps, similar to linux.
the only and more efficient way to fine tune dependencies of programs in automated way is, afaik, gentoo linux. its minimal system isn't as small as alpine's, but later one can build really custom system by choosing functionality of each program/lib and thus dependencies.
even 20 years ago using gentoo was easier for me than debian or freebsd: by using my own so called 'use flags' and compiling software in my way i was able to save traffic and get less deps much faster, which was a big deal on dial-up.
Has anyone seen a linux logfile viewer that tails a file, showing the age of each log entry with a color? That is, new lines could be red and slowly turn blue (a heat map). That way you can tell, at a glance when a line was printed, as well as the relative time distance between printed lines over the period of interest... All I could find was colorization based on the log itself (errors marked red, etc)...