Unix admins, how do you remotly tail a logfile via http ?
 

Hello,

please help me I'm sure that it's very easy but I can't found any solution.

I'm working everyday with a logfile that I have to reload every second to see the output in firefox... http://myserver/mylogfile.log..

What's the command to watch continually a file via http ???

something like that :
The problem is the http link. I can't mount anything. No NFS, no SAMBA. Only http :(

Thanks you for your help.
raf

just mount it! http://httpfs.sourceforge.net/

looks like it would actually support a tail due to it's use of http range requests. you *could* curl the end of the file manually using range requests, but that would be hard to keep track of what you're doing.

nice question btw... as for the tail itself, you shouldn't normally run tail through watch, that's pretty horrible. instead use "tail -f filename"

great thx !