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December 2004
Tool of the Month: FreeBSD tools
This month, I'll focus on tools that run on FreeBSD. After the release of FreeBSD 5.3, I spent a while testing it on one of my workstations and thought this would be a good time to explore some of the utilities available on FreeBSD.
Many applications that will compile on FreeBSD are likely to compile on OpenBSD, NetBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, and other *nixes, so I wasn't trying to find tools that run only on FreeBSD. However, I wanted to highlight a few tools that you'd find in the FreeBSD Ports Collection. All of the tools this month are available in the Ports Collection and can be added by cd'ing to the appropriate directory under /usr/ports and running make install or by running pkg_add -r packagename. (Users who aren't familiar with the FreeBSD packages and ports system should start here.)
Logmon
It's not at all uncommon for a sys admin to need to monitor multiple logfiles simultaneously. When you're troubleshooting an application like Apache or Exim, you might want to watch two or three logfiles while running tests. The "old and busted" way is to open up multiple xterms to tail -f each log separately. The "new hotness" is to just use a simple tool that makes it easy for you: Logmon. This effective little tool allows you to watch several logfiles at the same time in one window. See Figure 1.
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