Desperate for 2 programs :(

I have been searching for weeks to find a linux replacement for the following 2 programs.
Any advice ??

1. BareTail - http://www.baremetalsoft.com/baretail/
I know I can tail from a terminal, but I like the GUI interface and simple function of BareTail, also the highlight feature.
I must be able to tail files across a network...

2. IVT Telnet - http://home.wxs.nl/~ruurdb/IVT.HTM
I know I can telnet via a terminal, but IVT remembers the username / password for each IP address I access.
If I visit the same IP address, it offers me the option of using the recorded username / password.

I would like to find linux version of these applications.. any idea ??
Thanks

 

Seems like you didn't search too hard. Appears there are a number to choose from ...

http://tinyurl.com/99g86w

Cheers.

 

True there are a lot of options via google.. BUT
none are anywhere near as good as baretail or IVT.

I had tried the search you suggested..

any other ideas ?

 

Well then, I guess you'll have to resort to using Windoze if there is no GUI tail that fits your needs in the Linux world. Why a GUI is important is beyond me? Personally, I prefer the CLI when doing stuff like that.

Cheers.

 

Very true. However, it takes time for someone moving from Windows to get the Unix philosophy:

http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch01s06.html

If the OP just want colour output, there are a lot of colour tails out there.

Also, why telnet and stored passwords? It is a security nightmare.

 

BareTail will run happily under wine. So if you are attached to it, you do not need to miss it. One of the alternatives is multitail. While multitail is a terminal application and therefore lacks the nice scrollbars, It is way more flexible in colour schemes and other options. I use it for instance to follow subversion updates (output from a running command instead of a file) while also watching the database log which are triggered by after-update scripts.

If you want a telnet GUI, I would recommend that you immediately forget about telnet. It is insecure, insecure and also insecure. Really. Use SSH instead. For Windows, you can use either Cygwin (command-line) or Putty (GUI). For Linux, you can use the ssh command on the command-line or again Putty. While Putty can also handle Telnet, don't even think about it on the big bad internet.

 

Thanks for the replies.

Does multitail support tailing text / log files across a network. ??
I have some text based logs on a windows server that I would like to watch.

Some of the devices I use in my job need telnet access.. so I don't have a choice I need to use it !!
We only have telnet access to the devices when we are connected directly to them, so security isn't really an issue.

I have tried putty with the gui front end and that will allow me to save site details, but not the user / password.
I can live without the user name saving etc, but do need copy / paste support.

Many Thanks

 

Whatever multitail can reach, it can tail. So you can either send the output to stdout and pipe it to multitail (like echo 'hello' | multitail) or mount the remote filesystem using fuse, smbfs or sshfs. Then they are just files like any local ones. How do you monitor remote files now?

In Putty, there is a username setting in Connection->Data->Autologin username. When you fill this field with the correct (remote) username, you only have to paste or type the password. If you are using stored passwords, you probably have a password manager. It just might support telnet URLs.

For cases where you do use SSH, you can log in with a key instead of a password. You generate the key on the client machine (with the ssh-keygen command), copy it to the server and make it known there. After this, you are not asked for a password anymore from that machine.

 

Many Thanks for your answer, I will download multitail and putty and try them !!

Does putty support copy & paste ??

 

It should using the:
copy = highlight text to copy
paste = middle click where, in active app, you want to paste
http://linux.about.com/library/bl/open/ ... 4.3.10.htm

 

Many Thanks..
Seem to be sorted using putty, although I have just found GPutty which is quite a nice simple from end..

Just need to test multitail..
On that note anyone know of a GUI text editor that tails ?

Thanks for the help

 

No I know some text editors that detect is a file was changed, but being text editors, those programs kindly ask each time the file is changed or just when switched to that application from another one. If you could get the output by a script, PSPad could show it in its log window. But that will only work on Windows as scripting support in wine is not perfect yet.

 

I know in XP NotePad++ will tail, but I would like to try and move away from Windows..

 

GNU Emacs/XEmacs.

 

Hmm GPutty doesn't seem to work to well.. I need to find a replacement for that !!

 

Thanks I will take a look at that !

 

Emacs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Emacs

is very powerful, however, be warned that there is a very steep learning curve. However, once you know Emacs, you don't want to leave it. Here is a wiki to start you off if you are interested:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki

 

Thanks.

Seem to be sorted for now