[Xitami] instant notification when a page is visited ?

[Brian {Hamilton Kelly}]

[Post massaged into more conventional quote-then-respond ordering]

In message <5.1.0.14.2.20021204104529.00a9b008@pop.chello.at> TW writes:
> At 00:07 04.12.2002 -0500, you wrote:
[Huh?  Who is "you"?  Can your software not create a proper attribution?]
> 
> >Hi all,
> >Xitami on win98/ActivePerl here.
> >
> >Is there a simple way for a newbie(me) to instantly pop a local message on 
> >the servers screen when a visitor clicks a link or loads a page so I know 
> >they're sitting on a specific page ?
> 
> Hi there,
> just open your access.log file in any texteditor. when someone accesses 
> your site, the file will be changed and the editor notifies you about that. 

Even better, find a port of the standard U**x utility "tail"; I know that
it exists for all varieties of Windows, and DOS, and OS/2.  If you run it
in a separate command-prompt window, with the "-f" switch, it will always
display the current "end of the file", even when the latter is extended
by logging activities.

[I suppose that one could also use "tee" to pipe it into a separate
program or script that can look for specific features of activity.]

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
    "We can no longer stand apart from Europe if we would.  Yet we are
    untrained to mix with our neighbours, or even talk to them".
                                              George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919