[thelist] tail -f on a web page.

[Niklas]

Hi,

In PHP you can use the function shell_exec() to get the results you want.

For example (very simplified):


<?
$query = "/usr/local/bin/tail -f  access.log";

$result = shell_exec($query);
echo "<pre>";
echo "$result";
echo "</pre>";

/Niklas



Ben Joyce skrev:
> Can you execute the tail command with in PHP script and write the
> output to the page?  You can use "tail -f --lines=100" to view more
> lines if needed, then refresh the page to view the new activity.
>
> I don't know about Apache but in IIS the log files are updated in 64K
> chunks, not in real-time - something you might need to be aware of.
>
> Ben
>
> On 1/25/07, Kane Wilson <gsm_color at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> When we do the tail -f access.log in a linux box for apache webserver , we can view the logs / transactions realtime .
>>
>> 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 ?
>>
>> please help me .
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Kane.
>>
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