On 2026-01-20, Tom Smyth <[email protected]> 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... > > Im trying to stream logs for a tool to then filter and display for my > helpdesk / NOC team...
There are various programs designed for this but all of the ones I can find are difficult to use on OpenBSD (usually either written in go or javascript, and with a javascript front-end that needs building), they're certainly very difficult to write a port for, and even just building separately seems tricky for the ones I tried. e.g. https://github.com/mishankov/web-tail https://github.com/prateeknischal/webtail (also wants PAM; not sure if openpam will do) https://github.com/jdrews/logstation https://github.com/logdyhq/logdy-core https://github.com/mthenw/frontail Possible alternative, can you use something like lnav or multitail run inside a browser-based terminal (e.g. ttyd)? or if it doesn't absolutely need to be browser-based, you could setup a user account to automatically run one of those at login and have them ssh in instead. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
