OK, I did this and it does nothing but cause a loop and crash my browser...
<? exec("tail -n 100 /www/logs/access.log",$result); for ($i=0; $i<$result; $i++) { echo "$result<BR>"; } ?> What's the problem with that? Cheers, Liam ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Liam MacKenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2002 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [PHP] Tailing a log file {!?} Hi You need exec("tail -n 100 access_log",$result); $result will be an array with the output of the command. see http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php for more info Tom At 01:51 PM 4/05/2002, Liam MacKenzie wrote: >Hi guys, > >just a simple question, how would I go about displaying the last 100 lines >of a log file? >I know that on the command line it's: >tail -n 100 access_log > >Is there a PHP function to do this? > >Cheers, >Liam > > > > >-- >PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php