Tail and remote log files

Question

I would like to be able to make a tail -f error.log of my remote httpd server. I said I would like because it doesn't work, it tails, but the tail is not refreshed.
I did the following:
- I went on Server Admin and change the Apache log directory to /Groups/Logs/httpd
- I Shared this dir
- I went on my remote machine, log onto the share dir and try from the console to tail -f /Volumes/...../error.log
- The same tail command is refreshed locally on the server itself but never on the remote machine even if I CTRL C the command and retype it.
Any ideas arround?
Thierry

Answer 1

one way to do this is to tail the log via ssh. if you don't want to ssh in, then tail the log, you can do it in one step:
ssh [email protected] 'tail -f /var/log/httpd/access_log'
i don't recommend sharing the logs directory via AFP to do this, especially if you just have the AFP ports open to the whole world.
alternatively, you could configure a syslog server somewhere and direct apache to log to it. i'm not that familiar with doing this, so you'll have to do some homework first.
also, be sure when you say the "tail is not refreshed" that you're not just experiencing the log rollover that happens every day.