25 Jan, 2008
Tail remote logs
In this post, I mentioned that I was looking for a way to tail log files on a remote computer. Stig commented with a suggestion. You can specify the sudo and tail command to ssh
ssh user@hostname 'sudo tail -f /var/log/messages'
I am using this solution, but there are two problems:
- Your password will appear in the clear in the terminal window when entering it for the sudo command
- sudo has to be configured to work on a non-tty terminal, which could be a security hole.
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Comments
How about using SSH to set up a tunnel between 2 random ports, and then run local and remote instances of 'nc' to pipe the file through the tunnel? That way, you could de-couple the ssh from the cat, and not have the same kind of issues? I can dig up an example if you'd like, but there are some good nc examples on the man page...
Posted by slacy 26 Jan 2008, 09:03Add comment