On Tue, Jan 20, 2026 at 06:35:32PM +0000, Tom Smyth wrote: > do any of you do the equivalent of tail -f /var/log/syslog and somehow > pipe it to a web application that would display that content on a > webpage...
Do you actually need to see the log file exactly as-is, or is getting the equivalent data sufficient? If you want specific log data from specific programs, it's possible to modify /etc/syslog.conf to write a copy of the log entries to a fifo which can be read by an FCGI program, etc, etc. We've got some systems here that do this, for example to monitor an ipsec link being established and performing tasks when it is.
