Best way to view logs?

[kmack]

I hate to ask, but what is the best application to view log files? Is there a decent GUI viewer?

 

I have tried system log viewer as root and get many "this is not a log file" errors and seg faults.

 

Any recommendations?

[Guest SuGa]

gvim ;-) Imo the best way to view anything that can be viewed with a text-editor :-)

[aru]

The best apps to view logs are, IMHO, and in no particular order: cat, less, tail, watch, vim, grep... all of them very powerful text applications.

 

If you insist in a GUI, the only one I know is /usr/bin/logview

[qnr]

There's also root-tail.

 

Here's a shot I used for another topic...

 

http://linux.aliboom.com/images/mub/fullscreen.png

 

root-tail is what is displaying the logs on my root window --- and here's the code I used for it:

 

terry@timestorm: /home/terry

04:00:28 $ cat root-tail.info 

root-tail -g 132x70+100+50 -shade  var/log/everything/current,yellow /var/log/httpd/access_log,green,'WEB' /var/log/critical/current,red,'CRITICAL'

 

I'm using metalog as my logger, so your log files might be named differently

[kmack]

Thanks for those fast answers! I will experiment with each of your suggestions and see which fits me the best. I imagine gvim might be the one if I can ever figure out how to drive it!