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The Log File Navigator

120 points by vecio 12y ago

killerpopiller 12y ago
I am on MacOSX and interested but spoiled by debian. How do I come by the dependencies mentioned: libpcre, sqlite, ncurses, readline,zlib, bz2? brew install doesn't know the formula if I brew install libpcre. Sorry for being a noob.
- erikano 12y ago
  I'm not sure but try brew install pcre
- bhaak 12y ago
  brew install lnav lnav itself is already in the Homebrew repository.
- JosephRedfern 12y ago
  brew should handle all of that stuff for you. Make sure you've run `brew update`, and maybe do a `brew upgrade` before hand.
kawsper 12y ago
Strange, pressing the 'Escape'-key on that webpage sends me to https://timothy-stack.squarespace.com/config https://timothy-stack.squarespace.com/config
- heine 12y ago
  That's basically the "Admin-Panel-Key" on all squarespace hosted webpages.
- tstack 12y ago
  Oops, I disabled this, sorry for the confusion.
ins0 12y ago
I like how u can't do anything except reload the page after clicking on the preview image. fade to black - deal with it.
- tstack 12y ago
  Sorry! This seems to be a bug in squarespace. I've disabled the lightboxes for now.
- afandian 12y ago
  You could always try pressing escape (as I did) (see above).
  - ins0 12y ago
    yeah landed on the admin page after hitting esc and was even more confused :)
- awalGarg 12y ago
  Haha good thing we are hackers so... document.querySelector('.sqs-lightbox-overlay.sqs-lightbox-overlay-default').style.display='none';document.body.classList.remove('sqs-lightbox-open'); in the console <3 :p
aeno 12y ago
I love it! Been searchin for something like that for a long time.
sp4ke 12y ago
Thank you ! A good log terminal tool was really missing. Have some karme from me
susi22 12y ago
If you only want it for the colors (or maybe you dislike installing software from source): Check out "ccze".
michaelmior 12y ago
GitHub https://github.com/tstack/lnav https://github.com/tstack/lnav
baldfat 12y ago
1) They used OpenSUSE Build Service for RPMs YES. Why don't they also use the service for DEB? 2) I prefer ncurse to any gui ever. So much fast to use and read. 3) VIM bindings for the most part and the short cuts look very well thought out 4) Marking and copying gives the same feeling as Ranger File Manager which I use all the time and when forced to use Windows it is the first thing I always miss. Great job and look forward to adding this to my common work flow with my Linux boxes.
- tstack 12y ago
  There are Debian (https://packages.debian.org/sid/admin/lnav https://packages.debian.org/sid/admin/lnav) and Ubuntu (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/admin/lnav http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/admin/lnav) packages available from other maintainers. I use the RPM at my day-job, so I use OBS for that. I've not spent time to setup OBS to build DEBs. I'll look into it, though.
edoloughlin 12y ago
Just saw this recently: http://blog.libinpan.com/2009/07/less-is-better-than-tail/ http://blog.libinpan.com/2009/07/less-is-better-than-tail/ -- use less +F instead of tail -f
ausjke 12y ago
A quick try on ubuntu 12.04 64bit failed to compile(latest 0.7.2 release): lnav-0.7.2/src/static-libs/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): In function `_nc_mouse_event': (.text+0x61e): undefined reference to `Gpm_GetEvent' lnav-0.7.2/src/static-libs/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): In function `enable_gpm_mouse': (.text+0x78c): undefined reference to `Gpm_Close' Then I did this to "fix" it: ./configure --disable-static
T3RMINATED 12y ago
where is the windows version you anti-windows son of a gun!
jackdawjack 12y ago
Looks really good, can't quite tell if it can interleave lines from several sources if not this would be an excellent feature.
- tstack 12y ago
  Yes, log messages from different files are interleaved based on their timestamps.
  - geoelectric 12y ago
    Any facility for piping, for example to route an adb logcat (live remote log tail from android) through it? Of course, I could redirect the adb logcat output to a file and point this at that, but it'd be nice to have the sugar to not have to explicitly wrap the process.
    - tstack 12y ago
      You can pipe into lnav like you can with less/more: make |& lnav The '-t' option will prepend timestamps to the lines that are coming in on stdin so that it will be treated as a log file. The '-w <file>' option will write the stdin data to a file if you want to look at it later: make |& lnav -t -w /tmp/make.out Is that what you're asking about?
      - geoelectric 12y ago
        Sure is. Sounds great!
znq 12y ago
While not exactly the same as lnav, at Mobile Jazz we're building a remote logger for mobile devices (iOS only at this stage, support for Android, JS web apps and native desktop applications coming soon): http://bugfender.com/ http://bugfender.com/ We use Bugfender already for our own applications as well as for our clients, but we'd love to hear some unbiased feedback from other people whether or not this would be a useful product worth paying for. You can sign up here for a free beta account: https://app.bugfender.com/signup https://app.bugfender.com/signup
mcormier 12y ago
Been using multitail (http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/ http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/) for a while now, this looks interesting. I'll put it on my radar.

120 points by vecio 12y ago

I am on MacOSX and interested but spoiled by debian. How do I come by the dependencies mentioned: libpcre, sqlite, ncurses, readline,zlib, bz2? brew install doesn't know the formula if I brew install libpcre. Sorry for being a noob.

erikano 12y ago
I'm not sure but try brew install pcre
bhaak 12y ago
brew install lnav lnav itself is already in the Homebrew repository.
JosephRedfern 12y ago
brew should handle all of that stuff for you. Make sure you've run `brew update`, and maybe do a `brew upgrade` before hand.

kawsper 12y ago

Strange, pressing the 'Escape'-key on that webpage sends me to https://timothy-stack.squarespace.com/config https://timothy-stack.squarespace.com/config

heine 12y ago
That's basically the "Admin-Panel-Key" on all squarespace hosted webpages.
tstack 12y ago
Oops, I disabled this, sorry for the confusion.

ins0 12y ago

I like how u can't do anything except reload the page after clicking on the preview image. fade to black - deal with it.

tstack 12y ago
Sorry! This seems to be a bug in squarespace. I've disabled the lightboxes for now.
afandian 12y ago
You could always try pressing escape (as I did) (see above).
- ins0 12y ago
  yeah landed on the admin page after hitting esc and was even more confused :)
awalGarg 12y ago
Haha good thing we are hackers so... document.querySelector('.sqs-lightbox-overlay.sqs-lightbox-overlay-default').style.display='none';document.body.classList.remove('sqs-lightbox-open'); in the console <3 :p

aeno 12y ago

I love it! Been searchin for something like that for a long time.

sp4ke 12y ago

Thank you ! A good log terminal tool was really missing. Have some karme from me

susi22 12y ago

If you only want it for the colors (or maybe you dislike installing software from source): Check out "ccze".

michaelmior 12y ago

GitHub https://github.com/tstack/lnav https://github.com/tstack/lnav

baldfat 12y ago

1) They used OpenSUSE Build Service for RPMs YES. Why don't they also use the service for DEB? 2) I prefer ncurse to any gui ever. So much fast to use and read. 3) VIM bindings for the most part and the short cuts look very well thought out 4) Marking and copying gives the same feeling as Ranger File Manager which I use all the time and when forced to use Windows it is the first thing I always miss. Great job and look forward to adding this to my common work flow with my Linux boxes.

tstack 12y ago
There are Debian (https://packages.debian.org/sid/admin/lnav https://packages.debian.org/sid/admin/lnav) and Ubuntu (http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/admin/lnav http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/admin/lnav) packages available from other maintainers. I use the RPM at my day-job, so I use OBS for that. I've not spent time to setup OBS to build DEBs. I'll look into it, though.

edoloughlin 12y ago

Just saw this recently: http://blog.libinpan.com/2009/07/less-is-better-than-tail/ http://blog.libinpan.com/2009/07/less-is-better-than-tail/ -- use less +F instead of tail -f

ausjke 12y ago

A quick try on ubuntu 12.04 64bit failed to compile(latest 0.7.2 release): lnav-0.7.2/src/static-libs/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): In function `_nc_mouse_event': (.text+0x61e): undefined reference to `Gpm_GetEvent' lnav-0.7.2/src/static-libs/libncurses.a(lib_mouse.o): In function `enable_gpm_mouse': (.text+0x78c): undefined reference to `Gpm_Close' Then I did this to "fix" it: ./configure --disable-static

T3RMINATED 12y ago

where is the windows version you anti-windows son of a gun!

jackdawjack 12y ago

Looks really good, can't quite tell if it can interleave lines from several sources if not this would be an excellent feature.

tstack 12y ago
Yes, log messages from different files are interleaved based on their timestamps.
- geoelectric 12y ago
  Any facility for piping, for example to route an adb logcat (live remote log tail from android) through it? Of course, I could redirect the adb logcat output to a file and point this at that, but it'd be nice to have the sugar to not have to explicitly wrap the process.
  - tstack 12y ago
    You can pipe into lnav like you can with less/more: make |& lnav The '-t' option will prepend timestamps to the lines that are coming in on stdin so that it will be treated as a log file. The '-w <file>' option will write the stdin data to a file if you want to look at it later: make |& lnav -t -w /tmp/make.out Is that what you're asking about?
    - geoelectric 12y ago
      Sure is. Sounds great!

znq 12y ago

While not exactly the same as lnav, at Mobile Jazz we're building a remote logger for mobile devices (iOS only at this stage, support for Android, JS web apps and native desktop applications coming soon): http://bugfender.com/ http://bugfender.com/ We use Bugfender already for our own applications as well as for our clients, but we'd love to hear some unbiased feedback from other people whether or not this would be a useful product worth paying for. You can sign up here for a free beta account: https://app.bugfender.com/signup https://app.bugfender.com/signup

mcormier 12y ago

Been using multitail (http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/ http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/) for a while now, this looks interesting. I'll put it on my radar.