Comments on: GeekTool http://www.paulstimesink.com/post/2004/07/08/geektool/ My blog for things that I find interesting. Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:13:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: kerk http://www.paulstimesink.com/post/2004/07/08/geektool/comment-page-1/#comment-17 kerk Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:27:00 +0000 http://www.paulstimesink.com/wordpress/post/2004/07/08/geektool/#comment-17 <p>This works but could probably be improved upon as it only will tail while you have a terminal running in the background.</p> <p>-Set up public_key authentication with remote server.<br /> -Create a bash script which tails remote log and writes contents to a local file.<br /> -Open a terminal and run the script<br /> -Display the local file in GeekTool</p> <p>Here's an example bash script</p> <p>#!/usr/bin/bash<br /> ssh user@192.168.1.46 tail -f /var/log/php-error.log > /Users/username/Documents/remote-php-log.log</p> This works but could probably be improved upon as it only will tail while you have a terminal running in the background.

-Set up public_key authentication with remote server.
-Create a bash script which tails remote log and writes contents to a local file.
-Open a terminal and run the script
-Display the local file in GeekTool

Here’s an example bash script

#!/usr/bin/bash
ssh user@192.168.1.46 tail -f /var/log/php-error.log > /Users/username/Documents/remote-php-log.log

]]> By: Stig http://www.paulstimesink.com/post/2004/07/08/geektool/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Stig Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:11:00 +0000 http://www.paulstimesink.com/wordpress/post/2004/07/08/geektool/#comment-16 <p>I've managed to tail log files remote using the following:</p> <p>ssh 'sudo tail -f /var/log/messages'</p> <p>Regards,<br /> Stig</p> I’ve managed to tail log files remote using the following:

ssh ’sudo tail -f /var/log/messages’

Regards,
Stig

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