{"id":893,"date":"2011-04-26T17:29:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/?p=893"},"modified":"2011-04-26T17:36:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:36:44","slug":"coloured-varlogmessages-at-tty12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/judepereira.com\/blog\/coloured-varlogmessages-at-tty12\/","title":{"rendered":"Coloured \/var\/log\/messages at tty12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading logs could never become any more easier, at just a keystroke, you have your logs displayed where you want, in some fancy colour. They look great too.<\/p>\n

\"CCZE<\/a><\/p>\n

TTY’s can be accessed by pressing Alt + Ctrl + F[1 – 12] simultaneously. In the following, you’ll get a decent, colourized log display of \/var\/log\/messages when you press Alt + Ctrl + F12<\/p>\n

First install ccze<\/a>, most distributions have it in their repositories. CCZE is a robust and modular log colorizer with plugins for apm, exim, fetchmail, httpd, postfix, procmail, squid, syslog, ulogd, vsftpd, xferlog, and more. It brightens up the log view.<\/p>\n

To quickly test it, try tail -f var\/log\/messages | ccze -A<\/p>\n

The -A switch prevents ccze from starting itself in a curses window.<\/p>\n

Create a file cclm in \/usr\/local\/bin(you have to be root to be able to do so), with the following contents:
\n[sourcecode lang=bash]
\n#!\/bin\/sh
\nfile=&amp;quot;\/var\/log\/messages&amp;quot;
\nwhere=&amp;quot;\/dev\/tty12&amp;quot;
\ntail -f $file | ccze -A &amp;gt;&amp;gt; $where
\n[\/sourcecode]
\nAdd the following line to \/etc\/inittab
\nc12:123456:respawn:\/sbin\/agetty -n -l \/usr\/local\/bin\/cclm 38400 tty12 linux<\/strong>
\nThat’s all that there is to be done, either reboot to get it working, or execute the following in a terminal with privileges:
\n[sourcecode lang=bash]\/sbin\/agetty -n -l \/usr\/local\/bin\/cclm 38400 tty12 linux[\/sourcecode]<\/p>\n

This can be used on any ttys’. The most obvious ones to use would be tty8 to tty12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading logs could never become any more easier, at just a keystroke, you have your logs displayed where you want, in some fancy colour. They look great too. TTY’s can be accessed by pressing Alt + Ctrl + F[1 – 12] simultaneously. In the following, you’ll get a decent, colourized log display of \/var\/log\/messages when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,11,10],"tags":[177,176,181,182,178,179,180],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code","category-gen-sab-fed","category-linux","tag-ccze","tag-coloured-log","tag-display-log-on-tty","tag-gentoo-tty-log-messages","tag-syslog","tag-syslog-colour","tag-tty12-log"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t