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

Brian {Hamilton Kelly} xitami@lists.xitami.org
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 21:26:25 GMT


In message <3E6DEAB1.6020203@2cah.com> Craig Morrison writes:
> Brian {Hamilton Kelly} wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Is there an echo in here? I could have sworn I said this earlier. ;-)

Not quite: you (I think it was you) were advocating the use of the Unix
"less" utility, also with the "follow-on" flag.  However, I hadn't got
around to reading that contribution of yours when I wrote my reply: I was
about 300 non-spam mails behind on my various mailing lists, due to
illness last week.

-- 
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