conky height with tail

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#1

I want conky to tail /var/log/messages.
The problem I have is that it displays about 2 1/2 lines (see screenshot below; top-left conky).

Does anyone know if there is sth. I can modify in the configuration below to solve this?

alignment top_left
background no
use_xft yes
xftalpha 0.5
update_interval 1.0
total_run_times 0
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
double_buffer yes
maximum_width 900
draw_shades no
draw_outline no
draw_borders no
default_color blue
gap_x 40
gap_y 20
no_buffers yes
uppercase no
cpu_avg_samples 2
override_utf8_locale yes 
use_spacer none


TEXT
${execi 1 sudo /usr/bin/tail /var/log/messages | grep --invert-match "sudo"}

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/5385/instantanea6.png

Thanks in advance.
Yours faithfully,
a happy Suse new user.

#2

Think you’re hitting the

text_buffer_size bytes

From conky implies that output from vars will be limited (default is 256 bytes). Now crudely counting I reckon that is what you have.

#3

Man, you’re a wise penguin!!!
SOLVED.

#4

You’ll be one soon, just got to know where to look.

OT
Apologies whilst system logs was the other way to solve this. The actual daemon is now rsyslog for OS 11.2 I missed the change. But it is a little irrelevant if you’re happy with your grep(More than 1 way to skin a cat).

#5

I assume it’s a question of patience and discipline, none of which I possess, although they are in my TO DO list.

Concerning rsyslog, I am still trying to figure out how it works together and simultaneously with syslog and (optionally) syslog-ng.
Thanks for the tip.

#6

Well rsyslog seems to use(Or can) the same syntax as syslog-ng as far as I can tell. syslog -> syslog-ng -> rsyslog. It seems a generation thing oldest being syslog any way here is the docs rsyslog documentation :: syslogd supporting MySQL and TCP :: rsyslog I really can’t help more than that as I’ve never felt the need to tweak.

The only bit of advice I can offer is perhaps a gui maybe more helpfully. For example I know Webmin does have a default module for syslogs but how exactly it works with rsyslog I’m not sure. I suspect it should be fine from a quick googling.