Colortail is basically tail but with support for colors. With the help of color config files you define what part of the output to print in which color.
The latest version is 0.3.3 released on the 2nd of June 2010.
Changes
0.3.3
- Fixed stupid off by one error in TailFile.cc that caused a segfault if a line in the tailed file was longer that 1024 characters.
0.3.2
- Fixed a few places where a faulty string pointer could be returned.
0.3.1
- Merged gcc3 patch
- Corrected errors when running on 64-bit systems
Download
- colortail-0.3.0.tar.gz
- colortail-0.3.0-gcc3.patch.gz
- colortail-0.3.1.tar.gz
- colortail-0.3.2.tar.gz
- colortail-0.3.3.tar.gz

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Awsome, wow makes things all coolio, hehe, dosnt -F like tail however, (not -f, but -F).
I know. Support for ‘-F’ is an open feature request. Patches are welcome ;)
Hello Joakim, officially we can say 0.3.4 version is the last? (because it is only under github) or are you planning fix pending bugs/add new fixtures and then announce 0.3.4 release?. Thanks.
Good question! I should check if there are some unapplied patches lingering in my inbox and do a proper release.