Tailer+
powerful log file viewer
Version: 1.2.2
Cool app...
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: lohengrin2 Wednesday, May 19 2004 @ 10:46 AM PDT
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
Recommend Product: YES
...for system admins. First a little hard to get what it actually does more than the tail command, but when fiddling enough with the windows settings I got a titleless window at desktop level (as long as I use DesktopManager it's on all desktops, not only on one) with the system.log of our server in realtime. Pretty cool. Text filtering is very powerful to filter standard messages out or color them in any way. You can beep, speak the filtered text or the whole line. Unfortunately it crashes with a breakpoint exception when trying to open more than one logfile. Well, it's a beta... I would like to able to edit the bookmarks, and that the text filter dialog resizes when clicking on it (and back to display option), then the user does not have to search for the very powerful filter capabilities :-) Well done, looking forward for the final product, the price of 7$ is not too much, actually too less.
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Cool app... - cschleifer
Hi, this is the developer. THANKS for the great feedback, very informative, very helpful.I am concerned about the crash you said you get upon tryiing to open more than one file. This definitely should not happen and I can't reproduce it on either Jaguar or Panther. If at all possible and this keeps happening to you (or anyone else) if you could email the crash report to tailer@analogweb.com I will look into it and fix it immediately. The crash report would be in ~/Library/Logs/CrashReporter/Tailer+.crash.log or you can just copy and paste the report from the window that pops up after the crash (instead of "Send to Apple" send it to me ;-) ). Again thanks for the feedback and for using my app.
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Wednesday, May 19 2004 @ 11:19 PM PDT