tail -f /var/.../current | tai64nlocal
but if you want to see e.g. in tinydns IP addresses, use next script...
#!/usr/bin/perl -w #A program to decode tinydns logfiles #Written by Sean Hunter#Copyright (c) 2001 Uncarved Systems Ltd # #This is free software released under version 2 #of the GPL without warrantees of any kind use strict; use IPC::Open2; #Requires djb's tai64nlocal to be in the path open2(*READTAI, *WRITETAI, 'tai64nlocal'); my %query_type = ( '0001' => 'A', '0002' => 'NS', '0005' => 'CNAME', '0006' => 'SOA', '000c' => 'PTR', '000f' => 'MX', '0010' => 'TXT', '001c' => 'AAAA', '0021' => 'RT', '0026' => 'A6', '00fb' => 'IXFR', '00fc' => 'AXFR', '00ff' => '*' ); my %results = ( '+' => 'responded', '-' => 'not_authority', 'I' => 'not_implemented/invalid', 'C' => 'wrong_class', '/' => 'not_parsed' ); while (<>) { print WRITETAI $_; my $line = ; chomp $line; if (my ($stamp,$rawip,$port,$id,$result,$type,$name) = $line =~ /^(\S+ \S+) ([^:]+):([^:]+):([^:]+) (\S+) (\S+) (\S+)$/) { my $ip = decodeip($rawip); my $qtype = $query_type{$type} || $type; my $desc = $results{$result}; $line = sprintf("%s %s %15.15s:%4.4s %-8.8s %-24.24s %s",$stamp,$id,$ip,$port,$qtype,$desc,$name); } print "$line\n"; } close READTAI; close WRITETAI; sub decodeip { my $rawip = shift; my @hexbits = $rawip =~ /(..)(..)(..)(..)/; my $text_ip; my $sep = ''; for (@hexbits) { $text_ip .= $sep . hex($_); $sep = '.'; } $text_ip; }