1.2 - can now also vertically split the screen
1.3 - this version fixes an important bug: previous versions did not stop the tail-processes they started.
1.4 - this version adds regular expressions. You can now define for each window (or for all) what lines should be displayed
1.5 - this version adds a nice interactive menu for adding and deleting windows
1.6 - fixed printing of extended ascii (accents etc.)
- added swapping of window-positions
- added toggling of windows verticalsplit
- switched on extended regular expressions parsing
1.7 - small fixes and additions
- MultiTail should now compile on Solaris 8
1.8 - adds negation for regular expressions
- one can now also select the field which is used to determine the color (when you prefer to select the date, for example)
- some small fixes for FreeBSD.
1.9 - you can now also tail external commands with MultiTail, for example the output of ping.
1.91 - sometimes when using the '-l' command to get the output of other commands into MultiTail, nothing would appear in the window(s). this release should fix that.
2.0 - negating regular expressions did not work. fixed
2.1 - this release features filename completion when adding files through the menu
2.2 - fileselectors now shows the files sorted, has page up/down support and actually works.
- also the windows are now initially filled as much as possible.
2.3 - field delimiters (for -cf) can be any size now (not just one character)
- statuslines are now optional
- if a window closes, a popup-box is displayed (can be switched off)
- fixed a small memory-leak
- fixed a potential segfault
- fixed a couple of (sp)lint-warnings
- radically changed the errorhandling
- some fixes to get thing work (again) on MacOS-X. WARNING: the installationlocation has been changed to /usr/bin! So first do make uninstall on the previous release!
2.4 - --retry now also works on platforms where tail does not support --retry
- MultiTail works again on Solaris
- added "merge-mode": all files are merged into one window
- made window-selection into a scrollable window
- fixed compilation-warnings
- windows are filled as much as possible again on Solaris
2.5 - file completion on current directory now no longer segfaults
- removed the "merge windows"-facility and added multiple files/commands per windows (for greater flexibility)
- cleaned up source
- re-introduced the window-numbers (for easier navigation)
- fixes for Solaris
- highlighting of regular expressions
- MultiTail can now write its own startup-scripts
2.5.1 - fixed deleting of subwindows: sometimes left-over processes would still be in memory
- fixed regular expressions
2.5.2 - one can now set the screenrefresh interval: usefull when you use MultiTail over a slow link
- sets the terminal explicit to 'dumb' when starting a process, so one can now use for example -l "top"
- several small fixes (long filenames would garble the screen, etc.)
2.6 - compiles and works again when compiling with CygWin
- several small fixes
- one can now exit most menus by pressing q or x
- one can now set a mark in a window and scroll back (and forth)
2.6.1 - some cosmetic changes
- one can now safely press ctrl+c
2.6.2 - fixed important bug in scrollbackfunctionality
- also simplified scrollback a lot (no need to explicitly set a mark anymore)
2.6.3 - memory leak fix
- small enhancements to userinterface
2.6.4 - MultiTail can now be started without any parameters: a menu is then presented enabling you to add windows on the fly
2.7 - adding another entry to a 'merged' entry did not work correctly (would overwrite 2nd and further entries) - fixed
2.7.1 - "follow filename" no longer worked: fixed
2.7.2 - screen did not refresh after displaying info or help: fixed
- added a pause option ('p')
2.7.3 - first release to run under Irix
- you can now set DESTDIR when running 'make install'
- ctrl+z works again
2.7.4 - first release that runs on HP-UX
2.8 - you can now run a command in a loop with a delay, like the 'watch' command (just starting watch with the -l parameter doesn't work since it wants to redraw the complete display)
- first release that runs on AIX
2.8.1 - it is now possible to only have the difference printed for each run of a command
2.8.2 - a couple of small fixes
2.8.3 - added option which enables/disables linewrap
- can also set if you want everything from the right on
2.8.4 - you can now explicitly set an offset for linewrap
2.8.5 - multiple regular expressions per file are now possible
- no more need to explicitly set a regular expression when adding a file/command: you can do that through the new regular-expression edit menu
2.9 - small enhancements to regularexpression edit window
2.9.1 - you can now also let a beep be heard when a regular expression matches
- fixed a bug with regular expressions
2.9.2 - code cleanup: a lot of redundant code was removed, making the application somewhat smaller and the code a little better to read
2.9.3 - One can now set *what part* of a line is what color through regular expressions which are loaded from a file (see multitail.conf).
2.9.4 - introduced default colorscheme
- couple of small fixes
3.0.0 - added manual, fixed '-CS' switch
3.0.1 - fixed get_load() for older GLIBC systems (thanks to Ville Herva)
- color-selection menu did not correctly handle the 'n'-key, fixed (thanks to Rene Engelhard)
3.0.2 - the '-m'/'-M' (setting the number of buffered lines) did not work, fixed now
- the fileselector would sometimes segfault
3.0.4 - adding windows would make MultiTail sometimes segfault
3.0.5 - now the windows get only updated every there's really something to update
- the status-line will be updated ones for all current changes to a window
- keys 1...0 will add a marker-line to window 1...10(!)
- I had accidently left some debuggingcode in the scrollback-code, that is now removed
3.0.6 - changed window-number of the markerline to 0...9
3.1.0 - moved some functions from mt.c to utils.c/term.c
- added a statisticswindow ('t' in main window)
- small optimalisations
- added mailcheck: the statusline will become green if there's new mail
- configfile is now first loaded from /etc/multitail.conf and then from ~/.multitailrc
- fixed a couple of memory leaks (not all windows were cleaned-up after) and made screenredraw a little smarter
- One can now also select default colorschemes for files.
3.1.1 - TABs are now also printed correctly
- tab-stop/width can be configured through the configurationfile
3.1.2 - several small fixes
- more details are given when the compilation of a regular expression fails
- you can now always press 'q' to leave a popupwindowmenu
- window sizes are now configurable
- one can now bind actions (external programs) to keys which no current function in MultiTail (for example: 'g' starts /usr/bin/ping)
3.1.3 - no longer fails if you use a maildir instead of a mailfile
3.1.4 - improved scrolling in "scrollback-screen" quiet a lot
- -e switch did not work correctly
- added -ex/Ex which executes a given command if the regexp matches
- fixed small memoryleak that happened when multiple regexps fail
3.1.5 - -ex did not work when there was a " or a ` in the matching string
- if the program executed did output anything, the screen got scrambled: output is now all redirected to /dev/null
3.1.6 - one can now select the number of lines to tail initially
- scrollback would segfault for very large lines
3.1.7 - code cleanup
- macosx now also uses ncurses, this means that you need at least MacOS X 10.2
3.1.8 - the previous version would only compile on Linux
- in MacOS X 'off_t' is defined as a 64 bit integer, this requires some specific handling for printf()
- would fail when selecting colorschemes via the commandline
- The displayed modificationdate would also update if the terminal was resized.
3.1.9 - more efficient use of terminal: no more empty line above the statusline
3.1.91 - preventing (n)curses to redraw the whole display when only one window was cleared
3.1.92 - one can now set the xterm title to some arbitrary text
3.2.1 - when setting a nodename in the xterm titlebar, multitail would segfault.
3.2.2 - multitail now also compiles and runs on Tru64 v5.1b and HP-UX v11.23
3.2.3 - repeatingly executing the same command did not work
3.3.0 - use information of getpwent() instead of environmentvariables
- xterm title is cleared when multitail exits
- statusline can be set to a descriptive description instead of the filename/commandline
3.3.1 - rewrote terminal-resize code, should be much more stable now
- added code for handling 'F5': that refreshes the terminal
- one can now press 'F1' at any time to get context sensitive help
- some small layout fixes
- when adding a file one can select wether to follow the filename or the filedescriptor
3.3.2 - in the first 5 seconds a message is now displayed in the statusline indicating that F1 will give help
3.3.3 - one can now give a filepattern to look for: if a new file (more recent modification time) appears matching the given filepattern multitail will automatically start tailing that file (-iw pattern check_interval => don't forget the quotationmarks around the filepattern!)
3.3.4 - if you enabled mailcheck and deleted the mail file
- multitail would exit with an error indicating it couldn't check the file for changes
- ^h (ctrl+h) now also shows you help
3.3.5 - fixed the way parameters were given to the tail process (it worked, but it was not the correct way to do it)
- MultiTail should compile again on MacOS X
- code-cleanup
- it no longer bails out when the mailfolder did not exist
- removed C++-style comments
- fixed handling of wildcards
3.3.6 - use default background color instead of black
- some changes
- makefile for CYGWIN (win32)
3.3.7 - one can now explicitly select a configurationfile (using --conf filename)
3.3.8 - added makefile for creating CSW packages
3.4.0 - merged stable version 3.2.3 with development version 3.3.8
3.4.1 - compiles again on CygWIN
3.4.2 - added 'black' for color-output
3.4.3 - added blink/underline/reverse/bold for color-output
- fixed compilation warning on SUN
- Solaris now also uses ncurses
3.4.4 - output for certain logfiles and the output of some external commands (like wget) would show up garbled, that is now fixed
3.4.5 - multitail is now 64bit safe: it can now monitor files > 2GB
3.4.6 - compiles again on Free-, Open and NetBSD
3.4.7 - in certain cases, lines would appear split in two
3.4.8 - fixed a handle leak which occured when repeatingly viewing the output of an external command
3.4.9 - compiles again on MacOS X, fixed typo in on-line help
3.5.0 - replaced '-v -e[m]' by '-e[m]' (print if match) and '-ev' (print if not match). that is different from the previous situation: it a regular expression is found while checking the filter which says -e (or -em), output will only be given if the regexp matches with the pattern in the inputbuffer. -ev: only print if the regexp does NOT match. checking of the filters stops when there's a match for either -e[m] or -ev
3.5.1 - fixed a segfault when scrolling back
3.5.2 - fixed a segfault when giving incomplete commandline parameters
- 'l' now lists the user-keybindings defined in /etc/multitail.conf
- some UI fixes
3.5.4 - checks for posix version 200112 and acts to it
- the 'pause'-key is now really working
- improved gui
- improved fileselector
3.5.5 - improved fileselector (on can now see what entry is a directory)
- pause no really works
3.5.6 - added functionality so that programs or files with terminal escape-codes in them for colors are displayed correctly (WITH their colors)
3.5.7 - the 'r' was ignored when entering filenames (fixed)
- when the program was started without any parameters, only a blank screen was showed (fixed)
3.6.0 - merged the stable release 3.4.8 with the development release 3.5.7
- replaced 'q' with ctrl+'g'
3.6.1 - when cut-off (instead of linewrap) was switched on blank lines would appear, fixed
3.6.2 - getloadavg doesn't exist in uClibc
3.7.0 - SIGHUP now restarts the tail-processes
- one can now define in the configurationfile what program to use for tail: for example when one uses turbotail
3.7.1 - one can now set each logfile to one (1) color; usefull when merging multiple logfiles
- starting multitail without any inputs and then adding a program would fail (fixed)
3.7.2 - one can now have filesizes be abbreviated (to KB/MB/GB)
3.7.3 - parts of the input-data can now be stripped using ranges, reg.exps or columns
3.7.4 - the regexp edit menu now also display how often a regexp matched
- no more segfaults when exiting multitail while using '-E...'
- no more segfaults when the buffer was cleared
- the terminal can now be splitted in more then 2 columns
- number of windows per column can now be configured
- commandline parameters are now checked for validity
- when stripping using regexps: multiple matches are now processed correctly
- fixed some small memoryleaks
3.7.5 - delimiters can now be multicharacters
- fixed a memory leak in the strip-code
- some fixes for compilers where a char is unsigned: statusline mode would not work, aborting a "yes/no" question would fail, monitoring of processes that stop would give errornous results
- when the 'o' (or 'O') is pressed in the main-menu, a window is cleared
- improved scrollback-searchfunction-regularexpression errorhandling
- code cleanups
3.7.6 - updated a couple of help-pages
- 'O' (uppercase 'o') now clears all windows
- fixed saving scrollback-buffer to a file (would segfault)
- counting of matching regexps did not work
3.7.7 - fixed small memory leak
*** Current stable tree ***
3.8.0 - merge with 3.7.7
3.8.1 - on some platforms starting multitail would fail (HP-UX for example) due to the new strip-code
- stripping in a line with regexps would most of the time not work
3.8.2 - specific colors (instead of a colorscheme) would not work
- a colorscheme was always used. that is now fixed.
3.8.3 - if one (or more) window(s) was hidden, clearing that (or all) window would cause a segfault
3.8.4 - fixed a memoryleak
3.8.5 - running other programs from within multitail would not work on Solaris/AIX/HP-UX
3.8.6 - in the scrollback screen (press 'b') the cursor keys up and down did not work
3.8.7 - added complete GNU license textfile to the tarball instead of the website reference
3.8.8 - fixes to make it compile on Solaris 10 with the www.sunfreeware.com gcc-package and the SUNWspro c-compiler
3.8.9 - the 'toggle color'-menu did not fit in its window
- -s/-cS/-cT without a parameter would segfault
3.8.10 - pressing delete when editing a line could give garbage
- searching in the scrollback window would give segfaults in certain situations, also "search next" would not work
*** Current development tree ***
3.9.0 - one can now set the backgroundcolor as well (for colorschemes and such)
3.9.1 - when merging multiple inputs (e.g. logfiles) one can now prepend the logged line with the subwindow-number (-S) so that you can easily determine which one is logging
- one can now using -Z set the colors of the markerline
- one can now also get a timestamp in the markerline
- configfile can now be set in the makefile or via the commandline (-F)
3.9.2 - fixed a segfault in scrollback caused by the changes to the markerline
- number of matches-counters are now updated every 2 seconds in the regexp edit menu
- in the regexp edit menu the popup window would get garbled under certain circumstances
- added a colorscheme for 'rsstail' (http://www.vanheusden.com/rsstail/)
- long filenames are now abbreviated with '...' in the middle
3.9.3 - like the 'tee'-command or like using the '|' the input can now be written to a file or send to an other process, before or after filtering
3.9.4 - removed heartbeat (bouncing cursor) as it didn't work anyway, merged fix from 3.8.5
3.9.5 - added several colorschemes (for squid, asterisk, acctail, wtmptail, (isc-)dhcpd, smartd, firewall logging, bind9, kerberos, samba, httping, mailscanner, exim, sendmail, netstat and tcpdump)
- multiple colorscheme per file is now possible
- multitail can now convert ip-adresses to hostnames and seconds since the UNIX epoch to user configurable timeformats
- in case one is monitoring something without timestamps multitail can add them itself
- type ahead in the fileselector only worked for colorlists
- brought back the visual heartbeat (fixed it!)
- fixed the 'change color' menu (would sometimes not be big enough)
- fix for colorscheme substring regular expression, code cleanups.
3.9.6 - added colorschemes for oracle and ntpd
- multitail can now check if values in the input are <, > or == and choose a color on the outcome
- previous versions would segfault on B&W terminals
- fixed scrolling up and down in the scrollback menu
- added scroll left/right in the scrollbackmenu
- one can now set the linewrap from within multitail
- if there are more colorschemes then will fit in one view it will scroll
- rewrote the "write script" fuctionality (to include all commandline parameters)
3.9.7 - scrollup in the scrollback window when linewrap is disabled would give garbled output
- added menu for editing part-of-string-filters
- code cleanup
- added complete GNU license textfile to the tarball instead of the website reference
- one can now redirect output to multiple files and processes at once ('multitee')
3.9.8: - fixes to make it compile on Solaris 10 with the www.sunfreeware.com gcc-package and the SUNWspro c-compiler
- multitail can now read from STDIN (like the original tail)
3.9.9: - the next parameter behind "-j"/"-J" was (incorrectly) ignored
- added colorscheme for nagtail
- code cleanup
3.9.10 - "edit/delete strip-regexp" while no regexps were defined would cause a segfault (same thing for horizontal split)
- added "--[no-]mergeall" switch
- added new coloschemes (for WebsPhere, procmail, nntpcache and Veritas Netbackup)
- "no linewrap"-mode in scrollback did not work
- reverse in colorschemes worked only for 1 character (the first one)
- one can choose to only display the filename and not the complete path in the statusline
- now multiple default colorschemes per file can be configured in multitail.conf
- fixed "diff"-view
3.9.11 - certain invalid parameters would cause a segmentation fault instead of an error message
- several code cleanups
- (sub-)windows can now automatically be closed when longer idle then a given time in seconds
- extended ascii and control characters can now be suppresed via the configuration-file
- added "alternating colors"
- statusline timestamp format is now configurable
- can now convert errno to a descriptive string
- can convert decimal values to hex and vice versa
- '-cT' did not work when monitoring output of external commands
- -s/-cS/-cT without a parameter would segfault, added colorscheme for Checkpoint Firewall-1 logging
3.9.12: - removed maximum colors per line limit
- buffersize can now be set in bytes instead of number of lines
- beep method can be changed (beep/flash/none)
- ported to SCO OpenServer (tested on v6)
3.9.13: - control characters can be displayed in caret notation
- one can now send signals to running commands
- the last exit status of command (when using -l/-L with -R) is now displayed in the statusline
- when a window closes, the exitcode of the command that ran is displayed
- added pppd colorscheme
- added screendump functionality
- logfiles can now be truncated from within multitail (press 'T')
- fixed a memoryleak
- some small optimalizations
- improved line editor
- default umask for created files can be set in configurationfile
- fixed a bug where adding a new subwindow through the UI would fail
- 8 bit ascii was printed (incorrectly) in reverse
3.9.14: - MultiTail can now automatically open a new window if a new file was found
- improved color selection interface
- statusline can now be put above the data window
- colors and attributes of statusline can be configured
- added colorscheme for Netscape Directory server (LDAP)
- added color for 'vmstat'
- multiple attributes (bold, underline, reverse, etc.) can now be set for a colorscheme
- repeating lines can be suppressed
- a line (like the syslog '--- mark ---' line) can be printed when there's no activity in a window for a configurable time
- improved navigating the on-line help text
- some fixes for default number of lines/kb to buffer
- pressing delete when editing a line could give garbage
- searching in the scrollback window would give segfaults in certain situations, also "search next" would not work
- added key for hiding all windows but the one selected
- added key for unhiding all windows at once
3.9.14.1: - merging a window and then setting colors would cause a segfault
- csn prevents multitail from using inverted colors
3.9.14.2: - 'write_script' sometimes wrote incorrect scripts
- width of the window-selectionbox was not always big enough
- '---- MARK ----' is replaced by the usual markerline
- some fixes in the veritas netbackup colorscheme
3.9.15: - added colorscheme for log4j
- lines ending with '\' can now be reconnected into one again
- when multitail switches from one logfile to the other in one window, a markerline can be printed (like the original tail does)
- fixed a segfault that happened when adding a new non-merged window via the gui
- the colorscheme(s) in the "write script" functionality did not work
- -em/-ev etc. hopefully finally work
- cygwin version had problems finding its configfile
- some colorconfigurations produced back-on-black text
- fixed the code that decides on the sizes of the windows to display
- for the 'default parameters for filepattern' configurationfile settings the real path is used
- a window that closed by itself could cause an occasional segfault
- when the terminal gets resized, the current popup window is moved
- on really small windows the markerline would get garbled
- cursor key down in the scrollback window now goes back one line as it should
- the example multitail.conf is now copied to multitail.conf.new so that your own personalized version is not overwritten
3.9.16: - color attributes were not always correctly emitted when writing scripts
- improvements to the window-size management window
- when a subwindow-change happened and the new line was suppressed, it would incorrectly emit a markerline (if enabled)
- markerline for when multitail changes subwindow can now have its own colors
- "idle markerline" can now have its own colors
- standard syslog '-- MARK --' can now automatically replaced by the multitail markerline
4.0.0-rc1: - merged stable release 3.8.10 with development release 3.9.16
4.0.0-rc2: - the functionality which determines what is buffered and what not no longer worked. fixed.
4.0.0-rc3: - multitail did not notice file truncations
- closing windows did not tell what their contents was
- strftime on Solaris and IRIX doesn't like %2d (the '2')
- some makefiles would still overwrite existing makefiles
4.0.1: - realpath(), fscanf() and dup() returncodes were ignored, fixed a bufferoverrun in set_window_sizes()
- on at least FreeBSD all colors were gone, fixed that
4.0.2: - runs again on B&W terminals
4.0.3: - -C on a B&W terminal would crash
- statusline was not inverse on B&W
4.0.4: - compiles again on HP-UX
- -t/-x commandline parsing fixed
- replaced SIGHUP by SIGUSR1: this fixes the problem that multitail doesn't exits when your terminal gets closed. it would then use all cpu
4.0.5: - %2d for strftime does not work on all platforms
- when your shell was different from bash processes would not be killed correctly
- ported to AIX 5.3 with the standard AIX c-compiler (thanks to BPSolutions)
4.0.6: - multitail still did not stop all child processes (in some situations) when it was stopped. that should now be fixed
4.0.7: - fixed bug in the Makefile: 'make thanks' would sometimes fail
4.1.0: - one can now set configurationfile settings from the commandline with '-o'
- -rc and -Rc now clear the window between each run
- priority of the regular expressions for filtering can now be changed at run-time
- using '/' in the main-menu, one can now search in all windows; the result will be merged in a new popup-window
- using shift + '/' ('?') in the main-menu, one can now highlight a search-string in all windows
- case sensitivity of searches can now be set in at run-time by pressing 'I' or in the configurationfile (for scrollback search, merge search and highlight search)
4.1.1: - can now convert 'TAI64' timestrings (as emitted by Q-mail) to ascii string
- now removes markerlines when merging search-results of multiple windows
- fixed a segfault that happens when the last line in a window is a markerline and a redraw of the screen is forced
- -iw did not work
- added --no-load_global_config to prevent loading of configfile from /etc
- scrolling to the right in the scrollback window now keeps the colors
- wether to follow the filename or the filedescriptor (the file that we started to follow initially) default parameter can be set in the configfile
- default linewrap mode can be set in the configfile
- added -P which is like -p but for all following windows
- linewrap handling was broken when there were tabs in the input
- add --retry-all which is like --retry but for all following files
- -cv can now handle multiple conversionschemes at once. e.g.: -cv scheme1,scheme2,scheme3 etc. no spaces around the komma!
- one can now predefine a set of filters in the configfile
- fixes for statistics popup (number of runs/last rc were not displayed)
- --retry did not work
- 'B' in the main window will start the scrollback window with all windows merged into one window
- empty lines in the scrollback window would give a garbled screen
- tabs were not always printed correctly
- -P worked only for the first window
- ^h in the main menu would not work
- added keybindings similar to those of 'less' to the scrollbackwindow
4.1.2: - performance optimalisation of the idle loop
- performance optimalisation of the xterm header update routine
- normal (not merged) scrollback no longer worked
- optimised 'strip string' for the cases were nothing was found to strip
- one can configure multitail not to close a window when the process underneath stopped/exited
- windows can be restarted
- one can now set if empty lines should be suppressed or not (in the configfile)
4.2.0: - merged 4.1.2 with stable release 4.0.7
- typo fix in stripstring.c
4.2.1: - on AIX, the program would exit because of an realloc of 0 bytes
4.3.0: - one can now define a set of edit-rules in the configfile
- fix to get it to compile (and run) on MacOS X again
- splitline can be removed and attributes can be configured (in the configfile)
4.3.1: - a label can be set which will be put in front of each line using '--label "text"'
- cnv_ts_format would overrule the the settings for ts_format, that is now fixed
- -eC/-ec did not work
- compilation fixes voor freebsd 4.x
- on GNU LIBC systems, a backtrace is now shown in error situations
- attributes for reverse can now be configured in the configfile (used for, e.g. -eC)
- optimized code
- tabs would garble the display
- the abort/exit key can now be configured in the configfile
- updated help (-h) output
- updated man-page
4.3.2: - ^l now also redraws the terminal
- cursor keys did not work anymore
- accidently still had -pg (profiling support) in the Makefile switched on
- convert (-cv) can now also use an external script/program for the conversions!
- multiple occurences for a convert can now be in a line
4.3.3: - can convert a value to KB/MB/GB
- added colorscheme for 'p0f'
- added beep-functionality: multitail can now beep every line it processes (or every x-th line)
- colorschemes can now be determined by an external script
- added colorscheme for mpstat (part of sysstat)
- 'fixed' (it was not really a bug) a deadlock for colorschemes and conversionschemes where no substring select was done by the regexp
- cleaned up and optimised (for speed - loading 67000 colorschemes is now 200x faster) the configfileparser
- added page-up/down for colorscheme selection
- order of colorschemes and script:-lines in the configfile no longer matters
4.3.4: - terminal emulation can now also be selected via the menus
- default conversion scheme for a file can now be selected
- conversion schemes can now be selected at runtime (^v) (only for new lines)
- adding subwindow-id before each line can now be toggled at runtime (only for new lines)
- when selecting a subwindow, the subwindow number is displayed in front of each subwindow-name as well
- when adding a timestamp, a subwindownumber or a label before each line, colorschemes would get garbled
- code cleanups
- performance optimalisation of buffering; expected speed-up is 90%
- added colorscheme for portsentry
- updated on-line help
- lists of subwindows did not show file/command name
- fixed memoryleak in merged scrollback
- fixes in the cs_re* logic
- fixed sysstat colorschemes
- merged view (after a (global) search) can now show the window/subwindow number in front of each line (press ^t)
- fixes so that on IRIX MultiTail compiles without path-changes to the Makefile
- added -[eE]X which only gives the matching substring as a parameter to the command which is invoked for each matching line
- fixed a warning about TERM_IGNORE in utils.c (harmless but anoying netherless)
- check_mail value of 0 was not accepted altough it should be
- Ex (e.g. use the following for all following files) would fail when you would edit the command from within the menu
- -[qQ] did not use the default linewrap mode
- added wordwrap (-p w)
4.3.5: - 'n' (clear a buffer+window) did not work
- added 'N' which clears all buffers and windows
- in the scrollback menu, search next ('n') did not work
- global search now remembers the last searchstring
- added history to inputfields like searchstrings: press ^r or cursor key down when entering a search-string or filename or command
4.3.6: - MultiTail now verifies that you did not accidentely tried to pipe something into multitail while not using -j/-J
- do a read of SSIZE_MAX or 65536 (whichever is smaller) instead of just hardcoded 65535 bytes: that way it'll also run on UNIX systems where SSIZE_MAX < 65535
- when reading from stdin and the end of the file is reached, multitail would busy-loop causing high cpu load
- terminal-mode can now also select the subwindow
- disabled terminal-mode for stdin (as that would not work)
- added mcsre/mcsre_s/etc. (like cs_re/cs_re_s/etc.) but which merges these attributes to the attributes of a previous matched cs_re/mcsre
- statistics screen now also shows the number of colorpairs in use
- added colorscheme for Argus (http://qosient.com/argus/) - copied from http://wtf.hijacked.us/wiki/index.php/Multitail
- added support (in colorschemes) for alternating colors
4.3.7: - added case insensitive toggle to searchfields
5.0.0: - merge with developmentversion 4.3.7
- default linewrap mode in configurationfile was incorrectly parsed
- added colorscheme for motion
5.0.1: - fixed a segfault in the 'find'-code
- --mergeall would merge all the following files into the previous window(!) which may be unwanted, so added '--mergeall-new' which creates a new window in which all the following files upto --no-mergeall are merged
- conversion schemes/color schemes selection would fail if no schemes were defined in the config file.
- on certain terminals one need to explicitly set the background color to be usable
- version 5.0.0 always remembered the last searchstring, this can now be turned off in the configfile
5.0.2: - removed some debugging code that garbled the screen
5.0.3: - removed bogus error message when aborting 'write script'
- added color scheme for the BOINC project
- not all commandline settings were written when executing the 'write script' functionality
5.0.4: - changed default changeline_color to white on blue which is better readable then the previous colors
- fixes for systems where 'char' is actually unsigned
- fix for freebsd: one can now set the characters to use for borders
5.0.5: - HOME/END in scrollback did not redraw the screen
- compilation fix for uClibc
- page up (in the scrollbackwindow) did not work when there were lines bigger then the scrollbackwindow
5.1.0: - added conversion signal number to signal name
- MultiTail used to wake up 4 times a second, it now only wakes up if there is really something to do
- fixed a cosmetic bug in the 'add window' menu
- made more parameters configurable
- error messaging is more uniform
- added -kS which, like sed, can select parts of strings to keep. e.g. -kS "^.*(TCP[^ ]*).*$" would keep the string matched by what is between ( and )
- fixed 2 memory leaks
- replaced 2 strcat()s with strncat()
- one can now explicitly wether the 'tail' used is a posix only tail (e.g. inotail) or also supports the old "-[0-9]" format
- MultiTail can now act as a syslog-server (e.g. listening on UDP port 514 for messages). this is usefull when you want to monitor syslog capable devices (UNIX servers, Cisco switches, etc.) without the need for a syslog server
- made some errors not fatal - e.g. let them give an error popup instead
- unfiltered redirection would only emit the first line in certain situations
- fixed a segfault (occuring only on AIX) at exit
- Solaris problems fixed (malloc of 0 bytes)
- one can now redirect to a socket (syslog/udp/514) as well
- colors can now be suppressed in the scrollback window to improve scrollingspeed
- improved scrolling in the scrollback menu: also scrolling in a line is now possible
5.1.1: - errors in error popups would not fit sometimes
- moving to the beginning of the first line when it is longer then the screenwidth would not work in scrollback
- searching would not work when you were halfway a line in scrollback
- searching in the scrollback window can now open a new window as well
- removed 3 memoryleaks
- added colorscheme for acpitail
5.1.2: - some compilation/installation fixes for cygwin
- when a -E was used also all -e's were copied as well
5.1.3: - fixed small memory leak (global filter was not freed)
5.2.0: - merged 5.0.5 with 5.1.3
5.2.1: - labels would give incorrect linewraps in the scrollbackwindow
- the enter key will now add a markerline in all windows
- fixed segfault when saving buffer in the scrollback window
- added horizontal scroll for non-linewrapped windows (patch by René Berber)
5.2.2: - fixed problem with editrules
- fixes for solaris makefiles
- write script: won't write --bi with value < 1 anymore
- re-enabled 'suspend' (^z)
- fixed assertion error happening when doing a search with the '-ts' switch in the scrollback window
- configuration-file parameters with 'y' instead of 'yes' were taken for no
- added '--follow-all' (see -f for semantics)
5.3.0: - shrunk symboltable when not compiling in _DEBUG-mode
- added '--difference-only' (which works at character level)
- --retry added to tail when --retry is requested
- suppress_empty_lines did not work
