Alexander Skwar wrote: > Nice suggestion, but grep doesn't work all that well, when you have a look > at the messages as they are being written - I often do "tail -f > /var/log/syslog/messages" > and here a grep wouldn't work. tail -f /var/log/syslog/messages | grep whatever_interests_me Works fine ;-) Michal * http://www.logix.cz/michal