svlog

Display, filter and follow socklog log files on Void Linux.

Features

• Various options and filters for timestamps, priority, service and content of the logs
• Follow changes and display new logs
• Show logs in localtime or UTC
• Multithreaded processing of log files

Usage Examples

Show all logs which match the regular expression [A-Za-z]lue.ooth (case insensitive) since the last boot and display timestamps in UTC.

svlog -m "[A-Za-z]lue.ooth" -i -b --utc

Show all kernel logs from the previous boot with priority error or lower.

svlog -o 1 -p ..err kernel

Show all kernel and daemon logs as of a certain timestamp until yesterday.

svlog -s "2022-08-14 13:45" -u yesterday kernel daemon

Show the last 10 lines and all upcoming kernel logs (like svlogtail).

svlog -f kernel

Installation

You can find an xbps template here: https://github.com/pascal-huber/void-templates/blob/master/srcpkgs/svlog/template. Otherwise, cargo is your friend.