[Gllug] Tail and Apache

Ian Norton bredroll at darkspace.org.uk
Tue Jul 8 12:05:21 UTC 2003


I have one suggestion,

use ssh key based authentication and simply run

#> ssh user at host tail -f /var/log/log

if you have a windows client need then you can set up putty to do this in a few
clicks, no coding needed :-)

Ian

On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:05:20PM +0100, Simon Faulkner wrote:
> I could do that but I am hoping to produce a scrolling display as if you had
> tailed the file in a shell.
> 
> I might have a play with Python and see if I can write a client which does
> just this.
> 
> Simon
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gllug-bounces at linux.co.uk [mailto:gllug-bounces at linux.co.uk]On
> Behalf Of Martin A. Brooks
> Sent: 08 July 2003 10:35
> To: Greater London Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Tail and Apache
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 10:32, Simon Faulkner wrote:
> > But will apache ever kill the process when people close their browsers?
> 
> It should do, as the process should stop having a FD to write to.
> 
> > What would the 'proper' way to do this be?
> 
> I would lose the "-f" and have a 10 second autorefresh in the HTML
> header.
> 
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