Multiple tail programme
Edwin Kremer
edwin at cs.ruu.nl
Mon May 6 05:32:30 AEST 1991
Mark Coleman was looking for program that does:
|> a version of 'tail' that allows me
|> display the updates to files from multiple files.
|>
|> e.g. $ tail -f <file1> <file2> <file3>
You might want to take a look at Chip Rosenthal's "xtail" program (the 'x'
in front has nothing to do with X11 though). I use it all the time; it
is also able to watch directories (notices file deletion/creation).
It's in our archive; details below, look for "UNIX/xtail.tar.Z"
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**> This is my ``standard-answer'' to requests for free software that I
**> think our archive-service can fulfil. Usually, I mail this message
**> directly to the person who queried, but since people keep on asking,
**> I've decided to post this message as a follow-up on these kind of
**> queries in the relevant newsgroup(s) every once a month or so...
We, Computer Science department, Utrecht University, are running an
anonymous FTP server on one of our systems. I should say that we're
NOT archiving all of "comp.sources.*". Instead, we're putting a lot
of effort in trying to keep the archive up-to-date.
Here are the details on anonymous FTP:
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Site: archive.cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
Login: "anonymous" or "ftp"
Password: your email address (you at your_domain)
Usage: see the ftp(1) manual on your system
Hot topics: TeX stuff, Atari-ST software, Elm 2.3, NN 6.4,
UNIX software, sundry documentation, ...
Important: to get a description of what exactly is in the
archive get the file "pub/ls-lR.Z". Also, in each
sub-directory there is a file named "INDEX" that
describes the software in that directory (what
version, what else you need, who wrote it, etc.).
Although anonymous FTP is our main goal, we're also running a mail server,
because we *know* how you feel when there's plenty of beautiful software
around that you can't reach. We've been in that situation for a long long
time... All we ask from you is that you at least *try* to keep big requests
out of the prime-time hours (nights and weekends are fine).
Okay, now for how to access our mail server:
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1) The mail server can be reached at the address
mail-server at cs.ruu.nl
or the old-fashioned path alternative
...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!mail-server
2) The mail server understands a couple of commands, all commands
must be in the message body. The first thing you might want to
do is ask it for help:
send HELP
3) A complete "ls-lR" listing of the archive is kept in the
top-level directory, it will be updated every night. To get
it, say:
send ls-lR.Z
Note that compressed files will be sent UUEncoded by default; we
use the UUE that was posted to the net some time ago.
In every subdirectory you'll find a "INDEX" file, describing the
contents of that directory. So, e.g. to find out what's in the
NN-6.4 directory, say:
send NN-6.4/INDEX
4) Last, assume you want to get the UUE/UUD package mentioned above:
send UNIX/uudecode.shar
5) If your mailer appends your fancy signature file, you might want
to mark the end of the mail-server commands-list by putting an
end
command above the signature file. This will prevent "unknown
command" messages from the mail-server program.
That's all for now. If you encounter problems using the FTP service
and/or the mail-server, feel free to drop me a line (by e-mail, please).
thanks for your time,
--[ Edwin ]--
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Edwin Kremer (SysAdm), Dept. of Computer Science, Utrecht University
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-30-534104 | UUCP: ...!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!ruuinf!edwin
Telefax : +31-30-513791 | Email: edwin at cs.ruu.nl [131.211.80.5]
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