[mboerwink]

I personally replaced tailing logs with lnav (lnav.org, also in Debian repos). Coloration, decompression, filtering, etc. with no learning curve made it an easy transition for me after hearing about it on HN. It isn't nearly so featured as a log aggregator like splunk, but it was a total tail replacement for me.

[otoolep]

Ha, hadn't seen lnav before. Looks interesting. Proves my point, tailing will never die. :-)

[otoolep]

Well, now that I look it, maybe it's not exactly a tailing tool. Interesting nonetheless.