There are any number of log tailers. One I've recently discovered and love is multitail by Folkert vanHeusden:
http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/
Incidentally, a related utility (and one which works really well with multitail) is rsstail:
http://www.vanheusden.com/rsstail/
One option is to get an RSS/Atom feed of critical system events.
There are any number of log tailers. One I've recently discovered and love is multitail by Folkert vanHeusden:
http://www.vanheusden.com/multitail/
Incidentally, a related utility (and one which works really well with multitail) is rsstail:
http://www.vanheusden.com/rsstail/
One option is to get an RSS/Atom feed of critical system events.