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Thursday, July 23, 2009

Tiny tip on - Viewing run time logs on VT100 terminal.

9600baud serial connection & especially VT100 terminal sometime behaves very strange and most of the folks find it difficult to work on it. If there is a situation where you need to analyze the run time logs using tail -f log_file_name then it behaves weird sometimes, use below code to view them properly

#while :; do
>tail -5 /var/log/log.log
>sleep 10
>done

This will help you to view logs properly and help you to know when it is over!

3 comments:

  1. I think what you mean is:

    #while :; do
    >tail -5 /var/log/log.log
    >sleep 10
    >done

    Its not actually the vt100 terminal type thats the issue. Its the 9600baud serial connection that can't display the data fast enough.

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  2. Alex, you are the only UNIX GURU for me! Thanks for correction.

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