hi all,
do you think it would be possible to tail -f the production log and update an html element using rjs
so that the web page is updated every time the production log is updated?
basically I want to see my logs on an admin web page so I don’t have to ssh into my server
dion
Dion Hewson wrote:
do you think it would be possible to tail -f the production log and update an html element using rjs
so that the web page is updated every time the production log is updated?
All you need is periodically_call_remote. Get googling!
basically I want to see my logs on an admin web page so I don't have to ssh into my server
I would only abuse Ajax for a paying customer. For myself, I would simply either nab one of several log-reading websites which I suspect are out there, or would dump the log into a <pre> tag and then hit refresh frequently - or automate the refresh with a META tag.
Is there some reason you need to watch your logs so often?
You could do something like this which I think is more secure… you are using Capistrano, right?
thats a neat trick…
but requires you to be on a development machine with capistrano
I want to be able to monitor my logs from any machine, with just the browser…
If you want a bit more flashy tailing of your logfiles, you could have a look at glTail from http://www.fudgie.org
We’re running it at work on a big monitor with great success.
– Erlend