after installing clarity i was trying run it
by

clarity --username=admin --password=secret --port=8989 --include="httpd/.log" /var/log

i got following error

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:47:in +': can't convert String into Array (TypeError) from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:47:inexecute'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1267:in call' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1267:inparse_in_order'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:in catch' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1254:inparse_in_order'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1248:in order!' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1339:inpermute!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1360:in parse!' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:76:inexecute'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1724:in options' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:20:inexecute'
from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.8/bin/clarity:10
from /usr/bin/clarity:19:in `load'
from /usr/bin/clarity:19

The screenshot in the readme is offline

If I submit the search form by pressing enter instead of clicking the button I am sent to a blank page.

To fix this, you could do

 $("#" + search_form).bind("submit", function (event) {
     event.preventDefault();
     Search.submit();
 });

Or something like that instead of putting the onclick handler inline on the button.

It sounds like clarity has another dependency: Rails

Could you please document the version of Rails you are using?

Thank you

i just installed clarity (gem install clarity json eventmachine eventmachine_httpserver) but the command clarity is not avaliable in my shell.

should i add something to $PATH variable?

i'm using debian 6 / ruby 1.8.7

Hi,
Not a issue, but couldn't find any better place to address.
I liked the idea.
But can I install it on Ubuntu?

I'd love to be able to do something like this:

./clarity -p 234 /var/log/tomcat6 /var/log/foo /var/log/bar

I know this can be done with the config file, why not with the cli? ;-)

ERROR 03.12.2009 22:51:32 foo

is being showed as
51:32 foo

Sorry for the inconvenience, I can not install clarity. Any idea how solve it?

vagrant@quantal64:$ sudo clarity /var/log --include '/*'
/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:47:in block (2 levels) in execute': can't convert String into Array (TypeError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1360:incall'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1360:in block in parse_in_order' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1347:incatch'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1347:in parse_in_order' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1341:inorder!'
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1432:in permute!' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1453:inparse!'
from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:76:in block in execute' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/optparse.rb:1865:inoptions'
from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:20:in execute' from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/clarity-0.9.8/bin/clarity:10:in<top (required)>'
from /usr/local/bin/clarity:23:in load' from /usr/local/bin/clarity:23:in

Thanks!

The command being run is:
Running: sh -c 'grep -e => test.log'

Running grep -e => test.log in terminal has the same efffect, however grep -e '=>' test.log returns '=>'

There are a few things hardcoded in that seem to prevent log files with extensions other than .log. I changed line 7 of /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.2/lib/clarity/commands/tail_command_builder.rb and set the default value of log_files in /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.2/lib/clarity/cli.rb to "['/']" which makes things work here for our web logs where are formatted like access_log.1 . These changes probably make sense for a lot of situations, and in cases where .log does matter, it could be specified in the command line when starting clarity. Thanks!

Could only install it from http://gemcutter.org

Might want to update the docs or else turn it into a gem with GitHub...

I am pretty naive to clarity. For trial I installed clarity at my mac. And when I try to run clarity /var/log --include '/*'
It gives me error like
/Users/ritu/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:47:in +': can't convert String into Array (TypeError) from /Users/ritu/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:47:inexecute'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1260:in call' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1260:inparse_in_order'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1247:in catch' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1247:inparse_in_order'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1241:in order!' from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1332:inpermute!'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1353:in parse!' from /Users/ritu/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:76:inexecute'
from /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/optparse.rb:1717:in options' from /Users/ritu/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.8/lib/clarity/cli.rb:20:inexecute'
from /Users/ritu/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/clarity-0.9.8/bin/clarity:10
from /usr/bin/clarity:19:in `load'
from /usr/bin/clarity:19

Can somebody help me in this?

Howdy,

Clarity is vulnerable to a simple directory traversal vulnerability that allows access to any file on the server that's readable by the user clarity is running as - take for example /etc/passwd which is a+r.

This occurs because of how Clarity forwards any unknown request in to public_file. The public path and the request path are then concatenated, but there's no sanity check to make sure that the file being accessed actually lives inside Clarity::Public.

The exploit is reproducible simply byas simple as curl http://localhost:8989/../../../../../../../../../etc/passwd

I've got a fix in my fork of coosh's fork over at chrisboulton/clarity@c35751e - I just can't submit a pull request without including the rest of coosh's changes.

Props of course should be given to Yendor picking up the vulnerability in one of our security scans.

user@ubuntu:~$ sudo gem install clarity
PostInstall.txt
Successfully installed clarity-0.9.8
1 gem installed
Installing ri documentation for clarity-0.9.8...
Installing RDoc documentation for clarity-0.9.8...
Could not find main page README.rdoc
Could not find main page README.rdoc
Could not find main page README.rdoc
Could not find main page README.rdoc
user@ubuntu:~$ clarity --username=admin --password=secret --port=8989 /var/log
clarity: command not found
user@ubuntu:~$ 

Can you please help to resolve this?
Thank yiou.

Hi,
This is prasad. I try to install clarity on my ubuntu 12.04, but it will show no command found. How to resolve this problem.

Hi everybody,
I can't understand why the auto-scrolling doesn't work. Tried with Firefox and also Explorer (!?) but it doesn't work, not in Search nor in Tail mode. Any suggestions?

Thank you, Stefano.