Use local tools to monitor remote logs

Solution 1:

You could try something like this:

multitail -l "ssh remotehost tail -f /var/log/messages" \
          -l "ssh remotehost tail -f /var/log/mail.log"

I'm sure there are lots of nice multitail options I'm missing, but that should at least get the basics working.

If you have access to compilers on the remote box, just compile multitail up there, and install it in your user's directory.

./configure --prefix=~/bin/

Should work fine as long as ncurses is installed.