Setup system-wide,
#netbsd
#cp /usr/pkg/share/examples/screen/etcscreenrc /usr/pkg/etc/screenrc
#ln -s /usr/pkg/etc/screenrc /etc/screenrc
cp -pi /etc/screenrc /etc/screenrc.dist
vi /etc/screenrc
term xterm
defutf8 on
utf8 on on
startup_message off
caption always "%-Lw%{= BW}%50>%n%f* %t%{-}%+Lw%<"
defscrollback 1000000000
#shelltitle ""
# fr keyboard alt+, alt+;
#bindkey ^[, prev
#bindkey ^[; next
# us keyboard alt+, alt+.
bindkey ^[, prev
bindkey ^[. next
Note. other key bindings,
#console F9, F12 bindkey ^[[20~ prev bindkey ^[[24~ next
Note. other values allowed for caption,
caption always "%-Lw%{= BW}%50>%n%f* %t%{-}%+Lw%< %{=b BW} %H %{-} %l %Y-%m-%d-%c"
%D e.g. Thu
%M e.g. Sep
%d e.g. 05
%c e.g. 12:38
Setup wheeled specific log views
user=WHEELED su - $user vi .screenrc
note. need to use sh -c for wildcards
on CentOS,
screen -t "log" 0 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/messages screen -t "mail" 1 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/maillog screen -t "selinux" 2 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/audit/audit.log #screen -t "web" 3 sh -c "tail -F /var/log/nginx/*.log" #screen -t "access" 3 sh -c "tail -n 100 -F /var/log/httpd/*access*log" #screen -t "error" 4 sh -c "tail -n 100 -F /var/log/httpd/*error*log"
on Ubuntu,
screen -t "log" 0 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/syslog screen -t "mail" 1 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/mail.log #screen -t "web" 2 sh -c "tail -F /var/log/nginx/*.log" #screen -t "access" 2 sh -c "tail -n 100 -F /var/log/apache2/*access*log" #screen -t "error" 3 sh -c "tail -n 100 -F /var/log/apache2/*error*log"
plus on Ubuntu Desktop,
screen -t "all" 3 sudo su -l -c "tail -n 0 -F /var/log/*" screen -t "root" 4 sudo su - screen -t "sys" 5
on Debian,
screen -t "log" 0 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/messages #screen -t "exim" 1 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/exim4/mainlog screen -t "mail" 1 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/mail.log #screen -t "web" 2 sh -c "tail -F /var/log/nginx/*.log" #screen -t "access" 2 sh -c "tail -n 100 -F /var/log/apache2/*access*log" #screen -t "error" 3 sh -c "tail -n 100 -F /var/log/apache2/*error*log"
on Slackware,
screen -t "log" 0 tail -n 0 -F /var/log/* #screen -t "nginx" 3 sh -c "tail -F /var/log/nginx/*.log" #screen -t "messages" 0 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/messages #screen -t "syslog" 1 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/messages #screen -t "mail" 2 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/maillog
for NGINX with the /usr/local/nginx/ from scratch default prefix,
#screen -t "access" X sh -c "tail -n 100 -F /usr/local/nginx/logs/*access*log" #screen -t "error" X sh -c "tail -n 100 -F /usr/local/nginx/logs/*error*log"
and eventually some other shit,
#screen -t "postfixprod" 4 docker exec -ti postfixprod tail -F /var/log/mail.err /var/log/mail.log #screen -t "mongo" 1 tail -n 100 -F /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log #screen -t "tomcat" 2 sh -c "tail -F /var/log/tomcat8/*"
To name a screen SESSION,
screen -S SESSION_NAME
To rename a screen SESSION,
^a :session SESSION_NAME