Re: command to display system events

From: Pnoi (pnoi_at_kremlin.nyet.ru)
Date: 01/26/04


Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:14:02 GMT

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:13:28 +1100, sal enlightened everyone by writting:

> Hi all, what is the command to run in a shell that outputs to the screen
> system events in real time?? More of a scrolling log.
> (Remebered had used it in RH8, but thought it would be generic)
>
> TIA

Are you thinking of the "top" command which displays running processes,
memory, threads in real-time. Don't know any command to display system
logs real-time in a running scroll. As someone else posted

$ tail -n 200 /var/log/messages | less