[thelist] tail -f on a web page.

[Raoul Snyman]

Hi,

> I wanted to display that on a web page. How can i do it via php ? and what
> is the best way to do it ?
Depending on how PHP, Apache and your server are set up, you might be able to use exec('tail -f /var/log/apache2/access.log'); or a similar command (can't think of the right one at the moment) which will return you the output of the command. You'll most probably then need to refresh the page every 5 seconds or so to display the latest messages.

HTH

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Raoul Snyman
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