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# mtail is a tail variant designed for web developers monitoring logfiles
# Copyright (C) 2008 Martyn Smith
#
# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
use strict;
use warnings;
use IO::Select;
use IO::Handle;
use Config::General;
use Getopt::Declare;
my $config_file = $ENV{HOME} . '/.mtailrc';
my $config = {};
$config = { Config::General->new($config_file)->getall } if -e $config_file;
my $args = Getopt::Declare->new(q(
[strict]
-q Quiet mode
--quiet [ditto]
-n<N> Output the last N lines of each file before tailing
(defaults to 10)
<file>... Files to tail, see --help for how to specify sudo
/remote files or groups [required]
Files to tail can be specified in the following ways ...
@<groupname> - expands the group (from .mtailrc) to a list of
files to tail
<filename> - tails a local file.
+<filename> - attempts to sudo and tail a local file (will
prompt for pwd if required).
<remotehost>:<filename> - attempts to invoke tail via ssh on a remote
host.
+<remotehost>:<filename> - attempts to invoke sudo tail via ssh on a
remote host (will prompt for pwd if required).
));
exit 1 unless defined $args;
$args->{'-n'} = 10 unless defined $args->{'-n'};
exit 2 unless $args->{'-n'} =~ m{ \A \d+ \z }xms;
my $io_select = IO::Select->new();
my %info_for = ();
add_cli_files($args->{'<file>'});
# Boolean to track if there's been a timeout
my $new_lines = 0;
while ( 1 ) {
my @ready = $io_select->can_read(3);
if ( @ready ) {
if ( $new_lines ) {
print "\n\n\n\n\n";
$new_lines = 0;
}
foreach my $fh ( @ready ) {
my $info = $info_for{$fh};
while ( my $data = <$fh> ) {
if ( defined $info->{prefix} ) {
$data = $info->{prefix} . $data;
}
print $data;
}
}
}
else {
$new_lines = 1;
}
}
sub add_cli_files {#{{{
my $files = shift;
foreach my $file ( @$files ) {
if ( $file =~ m{ \A (\+)? (.*) : (.*) \z }xms and not -f $file ) {
my $info = {
sudo => $1,
host => $2,
filename => $3,
mode => 'cli',
};
add_file($info);
}
elsif ( $file =~ m{ \A \@ (\w+) \z }xms ) {
add_group($1);
}
elsif ( $file =~ m{ \A (\+)? (.*) \z }xms ) {
my $info = {
sudo => $1,
filename => $2,
mode => 'cli',
};
if ( -f $info->{filename} ) {
add_file($info);
}
else {
print STDERR "Skipping non-existant file $info->{filename}\n";
}
}
}
}#}}}
sub add_group {
my $group = shift;
unless ( exists $config->{group}{$group} ) {
print STDERR "Couldn't find group '$group' in $config_file\n";
return;
}
if ( ref $config->{group}{$group}{file} ne 'ARRAY' ) {
$config->{group}{$group}{file} = [ $config->{group}{$group}{file} ];
}
foreach my $file ( @{$config->{group}{$group}{file}} ) {
my $info = {
filename => $file->{filename} || $config->{group}{$group}{filename},
host => $file->{host} || $config->{group}{$group}{host},
sudo => $file->{sudo} || $config->{group}{$group}{sudo},
prefix => $file->{prefix} || $config->{group}{$group}{prefix},
mode => 'from group ' . $group,
};
if ( defined $info->{sudo} and $info->{sudo} =~ m{ \A (?: no | false ) \z }ixms ) {
$info->{sudo} = 0;
}
add_file($info);
}
}
# Adds a single file to the tail list.
#
# file to tail is passed as a hashref containing:
# - filename (mandatory)
# - host
# - sudo
# - prefix
# - mode
#
sub add_file {
my ($file) = @_;
my $fh;
# Do sudo auth first
if ( $file->{sudo} ) {
if ( $file->{host} ) {
if ( system('ssh', '-q', '-t', $file->{host}, 'sudo', '-p' => '"Sudo password for [%u] on [%h]: "', '-v') ) {
print STDERR "sudo auth failed on host $file->{host}, ignoring file $file->{filename} on this host\n";
return;
}
}
else {
if ( system('sudo', '-p' => 'Sudo password for [%u] on [%h]: ', '-v') ) {
print STDERR "sudo auth failed for local file $file->{filename}, ignoring this file\n";
return;
}
}
}
if ( $file->{host} ) {
if ( $file->{sudo} ) {
open $fh, '-|', 'ssh', '-q', $file->{host}, 'sudo', 'tail', '-n' => $args->{'-n'}, '-f', $file->{filename};
}
else {
open $fh, '-|', 'ssh', '-q', $file->{host}, 'tail', '-n' => $args->{'-n'}, '-f', $file->{filename};
}
}
else {
if ( $file->{sudo} ) {
open $fh, '-|', 'sudo', 'tail', '-n' => $args->{'-n'}, '-f', $file->{filename};
}
else {
open $fh, '-|', 'tail', '-n' => $args->{'-n'}, '-f', $file->{filename};
}
}
unless ( defined $fh ) {
print STDERR "failed to open file handle for $file->{filename}\n";
return;
}
$file->{fh} = $fh;
$info_for{$fh} = $file;
$fh->blocking(0);
$io_select->add($fh);
print STDERR "Tailing $file->{filename}\n" unless $args->{-q};
}
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