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I am monitoring a couple of windows 2k3 servers from a mac running Os x Lion. I use smb to connect to the server's file system, navigate to the folder where the log files are and open them with console.app.
I like Console.app because it's a dynamic log viewer and it resembles using tail -f option on the terminal. However, over smb I can't get the same behaviour for either Console or the tail command: the updated logs never or very rarely update.
Does anyone know a better way to follow up on a server's log file from the remote mac?
Best regards
On you first statement, even the buffer gets filled and the file is save, the log is not updated. I confirmed it by checking the modify date column from both the server itself (looking at windows explorer) and the mac (looking at the finder window). I am also mounting the smb share locally (I don't even know how I would do it otherwise...). The tail -f does not update under any circumstances... – gaudi_br – 2012-01-20T02:02:46.293