Hi all!
Started a new thread after https://forum.antergos.com/topic/10579/how-to-show-logs, since there’s a new tool available (for the same purpose).
You can install the new tool called eat to your system with terminal commands:
wget -q https://github.com/manuel-192/eat/raw/master/PKGBUILD
makepkg -sic
Another way to install, also checking the sha512sum first:
wget -q https://github.com/manuel-192/Antergos/raw/master/Antergos-packages/eat-0.1.8-1-any.pkg.tar.xz{,.sha512}
sha512sum -c eat-0.1.8-1-any.pkg.tar.xz.sha512 && sudo pacman -U eat-0.1.8-1-any.pkg.tar.xz # installs the package!
The above will install eat application as /usr/bin/eat.
Here are some examples of how to use the tool for sending certain Antergos logs to the pastebin service on the Internet. The pastebin service then returns a web link (URL) that you e.g. can show here.
For example, sending the output of the lsusb command to pastebin is like this:
lsusb | eat -send "here's my lsusb"
or likewise, the output of lspci -vnn:
lspci -vnn | eat -send "here's my lspvi -vnn"
You can also combine the output of multiple tools and send all of them to pastebin like this:
lsusb | eat
lspci | eat -send "both lsusb and lspci"
So the basic operations (but not all) of eat are:
- just save (combine) the output of a command: eat without options
- eat the preceding command output and send it (command eat -send “<description>”)
The description above is optional, but useful, since info about each send is saved.
Highlights of the tool:
- the tool automatically hides user specific information ($LOGNAME, $USER, $HOSTNAME) before sending it to the internet
- information (date, returned URL, user description) about each send is automatically saved for later inspection
- you may just save the output without sending, and send it later, or just delete it
In the following (a bit more advanced) example, first the output of lspci -vnn is saved by ‘eat’, then ‘eat’ shows what it has eaten (with option -show). And if you decide to send it, the third command eat -send2 “myresults” sends the info to pastebin.
lspci -vnn | eat # save, don't send yet!
eat -show # see what 'eat' has saved
eat -send2 "my results" # send the info to the pastebin (if it is OK for you)
Note the usage of option -send2 instead of -send.
As opposed to option -send, option -send2 is used when data is no more read from the standard input. If data is read from the standard input, then option -send must be used.
If you (after the second command above) decide you don’t want to send it, you can delete the saved info with command:
eat -clean
Actually it is a good idea to run ‘eat -clean’ in the beginning of a session just in case there are some leftovers from previous sessions.
Other options:
- -help gives some usage help
- -hide hides user specific information from the saved file (not really necessary since hiding is always done before sending)
Still more examples to go:
lsusb | eat -send "my lsusb"
lsusb | eat
eat -send2 "another lsusb"
lsusb | eat
lspci | eat
journalctl -b -0 | eat
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | eat -send "many outputs"
