[Xitami] Is real-time view of logs possible?

[WhiteShepherd]

True, I've used tail of OS/2 on Xitami and it worked fine.

Gene

On 10 Mar 2003 at 22:52, Brian {Hamilton Kelly} wrote:

> In message <5.1.0.14.2.20030307082520.00a4bec0@verfaillie4.verfaillie.local>
>    Marc Doigny writes:
> > At 00:23 7/03/03, you wrote:
> > >Is there a way to view Xitami access logs in real-time? i.e. to 
see the
> > >entries to the log files as they are written?
> > 
> > It seems there are lots of people wanting to see the logs real 
time.
> > If pushed enough, i can write you a small windows console 
application (exe) 
> > that shows the last entries in the log file.
> 
> Would it not suffice to use one of the Windows' ports of the Unix 
tail
> utility?  I regularly use an OS/2 port of tail, with the -f switch, to
> view similar logs that all other programs refuse to open (because 
they're
> supposedly locked).  I've not tried it with running Xitami logs, but 
see
> no reason why it should not be equally efficaceous.  (For those
> unfamiliar with the concept, "tail -f <filename>" will display the 
last
> ten lines of a file, and then sit waiting for the file to be extended 
by
> whatever is writing it, and display what gets added "in real-time", 
until
> Ctrl-C is pressed.)
> 
> -- 
> Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                          bhk@dsl.co.uk
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we are
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>                                               George Macaulay Trevelyan, 1919
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