ctail

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  "github_readme_excerpt": "# ctail: The cluster tail tool\n\nA simple tool for merging tail streams from many machines in a cluster.\n\n[tail(1)](http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tail) across large clusters of machines, with many log files.  It relies upon existing SSH authentication infrastructure, rather than introducing central points of log collection, or other large infrastructure changes, which aren\u0027t easily changed in many systems.\n\n`ctail` is built on top of [APR and APR-Util](http://apr.apache.org).\nIt is made avaialble under the [Apache Software License, Version 2.0](http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0), which means it is suitable for use in both open and closed source software, and that you can make modifications\nto it without being required to distribute them, as long as you abide\nby the terms set forth in the license.  Although, if you do fix bugs\nor add new features it would certainly be nice if you contributed\nthem back, helping development.\n\n# Usage\n\n```sh\n$ ctail --help\n\nctail 0.1.0-release\nUsage:\n   ctail (options)\nOptions:\n   -b --bulk                    Enable Bulk IO Buffering for output.\n   -d --debug                   Enable debug output.\n   -h --help                    Print this help message.\n   -f --file=\u0026lt;path\u0026gt;       Sets default target file to tail\n   -m --machines=\u0026lt;list\u0026gt;   List of machines to connect to.\n   -p --prefix                  Show machine names before every line.\n\n```\n\nThe `--machines` option lists the machines for `ctail` to connect to. Machines can either be bare hostnames, or hostnames plus a log path.\n\n`ctail` assumes that your SSH is configured to work without prompting for passwords or other information. You can test this by running `ssh -o BatchMode=yes machine_name`.\nThis is most commonly done using ssh-keys, but more information\non how to use Password-less authentication [can be found on the internet](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en\u0026safe=off\u0026q=openssh+ssh-keygen\").\n\n# Examples\n\n`ctail -m \"w01:/var/log/messages\"`: Would c",
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