From: John Cuccia 

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 19:24:42 -0500, "Geo"  wrote:

>"John Cuccia"  wrote in message
>news:8hgvs1ddlf54s0d9c9b1ncn9dhfg76vmpg{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Have you ever seen the log viewer that comes with SMS?  The app is
>> called trace32.exe. It works in real time, updating the view as the
>> log file is updated.  It is specifically designed to use SMS logs, but
>> will work with any text file and allows searching, filtering and
>> highlighting of entries.  If you don't have access to it let me know
>> and I'll upload it to binaries.
>
>I usually just use
>
>tail -f nameoflogfile.txt
>
>which views the log file as lines are added, but these require access to the
>log file, I was thinking access to just the index service would be a bit
>more secure and less resource intensive when the techs initiate a search.

But you can't filter and highlight with tail, although I think you can
redirect tail to grep for filtering.

Anyway, have one of your techs give Trace32 a look if you get time, I think
you'll like it.  When I was still doing SMS admin work it wasn't unusual
for me to be watching three or four interrelated log files in a tiled
display, with little impact on local resources.

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