tail command

[busster]

Can I use the tail command to continuously send a log file to Windows?

Have tried:
tail -f /var/log/error.log 10.0.1.31 12000

I hoped this would send the error.log file to my windows pc on port 12000

 

[North323]

no but you can write a cron to send it there and have it just re-write every minute

 

[m4ilm4n]

Take a look at netcat - it should do what you want (I had to doublecheck to make sure it would do outbound, I've only used it for inbound traffic).

http://netcat.sourceforge.net/

 

[busster]

tail -f /var/log/error.log |nc 10.0.1.31 12000 seems to be working, but it does stop running sometimes.

 

[stefanwagner]

maybe nohup and respawn help in avoiding termination.

don't visit my homepage:

http://home.arcor.de/hirnstrom/minis/index.html

 

[m4ilm4n]

I run mine as a script called by cron:

#!/bin/bash
#
killall netcat
sleep 4
FILE=`/bin/date +"%d-%m-%Y.txt"`
netcat -l -p 50000 > /cdr/html/$FILE &
rm /cdr/html/current.txt
ln -s /cdr/html/$FILE /cdr/html/current.txt

This is for capturing call detail recording from a phone switch, but the concept is similar. The cron entry runs this once a day to roll the logs.