[Gllug] Tail and Apache

[Alistair Mann]

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Thus spaketh Simon Faulkner on Tuesday 08 July 2003 10:32 am:
> I would like to show the ongoing results of a log file using tail and a cgi
> shell script:
>
> #!/bin/csh
> echo "Content-type: text/html"
> echo ""
> echo "<H3>LOG"</H3>"
> echo "<P>"
> echo "<PRE>"
> /usr/bin/tail -n 100 -f /var/log/mylog
>
>
>
> This works :-)
>
> But will apache ever kill the process when people close their browsers?

Yes. 

> What would the 'proper' way to do this be?

There's nothing 'improper' about what you have above. In fact, it's an 
excellent solution. 
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Alistair
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