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I'm developing a server deployment script that installs a bunch of stuff and generates a log in the process. I'd like users of the script to be able to view what's happening, on a web page, in real time (eg, without browser refresh). What's a simple way to make this happen?

I tried log.io but missed the part about "no persistence layer". Tools like nagios are far too complex for this.

Basically I'm looking for something that goes:

  1. sudo apt-get install -y logviewer
  2. nohup logviewer --port 1234 < /var/log/mylog.log &

The target server is Ubuntu on OpenStack. The log is mostly generated by Salt Stack.

Steve Bennett
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I've always wanted this, and have searched from time to time.

This looks promising: http://tailon.readthedocs.org/en/latest

Dan Garthwaite
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