Staff: TailMe

TailMe - a "tail" for Windows

TailMe is an utility providing functions similar to the UNIX/Linux command "tail": it lists the last changed lines/characters in a text file.
You can always see changes taking place in the file on the fly. It is very usefull for monitoring log files of applications - e.g. Apache's error.log and access.log.

Screenshot

TailMe can monitor several log files at the same time and provides a more expressive output than console"tail" programs can do.

Functions:

add/remove monitor files at runtime
automatic purge of text buffer
resizeable monitor windows
possibility to minimize TailMe into the system tray
lines with special (user-defined) key words are written in different colors
shrinked log files are symbolized with a horizontal line
stop/continue monitoring via double click in the window area of the corresponding monitor file
list of "recent files" is available and saved in the INI file
drag&drop of files from the Explorer

new in version 1.4:
- new options (window position and size, speaker beep on log events, ...); also available in INI file
- standard ini file "{EXE name without extension}.ini"
new in version 1.5:
- remove/reset all files in one step
- show only the log entries with key words (optional)
- some new visual options
new in version 1.6:
- maximizing of a single monitor area
- open several files in one step
- monitoring of files via FTP
new in version 1.8:
- FTP access via proxy
- automatic reconnection with FTP server
- monitoring of all files in one window area is also possible
- print all actual configuration options and parameters
- more tail like scroll behaviour
new in version 1.9:
- file names with date based wildcards are supported
- standard text search
neu in version 1.10:
- change task bar mode and system tray mode at runtime
- switch on/off window border
- two special wildcards (w52, ww52)
new in version 1.11:
- some minor changes (see TailMe History.txt)
new in version 1.12:
- book marks
- automatic word wrap
new in version 1.13:
- adding of user definable time stamp to every line

To reload different monitor jobs you can define configuration files and hand them over to TailMe by command line parameter - an example (file included in download):

call: "d:\Programme\Tail\TailMe.exe d:\Programme\Tail\Apache_Tail.ini"

=== Content of Apache_Tail.ini ===
[TailFiles]
File0=D:\Programme\Wamp\Apache\logs\access.log
File1=D:\Programme\Wamp\Apache\logs\error.log

[FTPTailFiles]
FTPFile0=/logs/access.log.34.1

[Options]
Active=1
FontSize=7
FontName=Small Fonts
PurgeAtLine=250
MonitorInterval=500
ShowOnlyInSystemTray=1
ShowOnLogEvent=1
BeepOnLogEvent=1
ShowOnlySpecialWordLogs=0
MonitorBackgroundColor=16766935
ShowFileNameImage=1
AlwaysOnTop=1
AdjustSizeAutomatically=1
Left=374
Top=64
Width=615
Height=290
SaveSettings=1
TailSize=2048
SingleAreaMode=0
InitBytes=1024
VScrollVisible=0
HasBorder=1
WordWrap=0
TimeStamp="[dd.mm.yyyy hh:mm:ss] "

[SpecialWords]
SpecialWord1=/Download
SpecialColor1=0x0000FF
SpecialWord_admin=/cgi-bin/admin.php
SpecialColor_admin=0xFF0000

[FTP]
Host=www.dschensky.de
Port=21
Account=p1234567
PassiveMode=1
Password=abc123def456
;ProxyHost=192.168.0.1
ProxyPort=2121
ProxyAccount=192.168.0.1
ProxyPassword=
==================================

For some more informations see TailMe History.txt and TailMe Help.htm (also included in the download).

Download: TailMe.zip Version 1.13 (906 KB , 04.02.2006)

Old version without ftp: TailMe Version 1.6 (634 KByte, 08.08.2003)

(Shareware - no spy ware, no restrictions)

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