Re: 'mirroring' or 'streaming' a text log file?

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Hello,

 This can be done with tail -f >> file &. I'm not sure how you would write it to
another machine unless you were using NFS, though. Hope this helps,

Art Brown

Thomison, Lee wrote:
> Hi folks,
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> I did this a couple of years ago, and it seemed really simple then, but
> I can't remember how I did it.
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> I've got an (closed, proprietary) app running on a solaris 2.5.1 box
> that writes its logs in text format, several lines a second sometimes.
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> I need to duplicate these to another machine, so that the files are
> 'mirrors' of each other; as the one is written to, it feeds the
> duplicate.
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> Even better would be 'streaming' the log file to my logging host's
> syslog-ng (the solaris boxen use legacy syslog, not syslog-ng). I think
> I ended up doing it with a startup service, so it wasn't just a
> 'background' job, it was a real reflecting service.
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> This seemed really easy and obvious a few years ago, but for the life of
> me I can't remember how I did it. Any thoughts?
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> Thx,
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