Ever wanted to grab a log file entries from a remote machine on your local machine? Here's one way to do it. In Terminal, connected to a remote host, run tail -f on the log file you want to view, and then direct the output to a local file with a .log extension. For example:
$ ssh remotehost "tail -f /var/log/httpd/access.log" >> remote-httpd.log
(You'll have to replace remotehost with the full name/IP address of the remote host, obviously.) Note that the command will not return a command prompt. Now launch Console, use File: Open within the application, and point it to the local file with the .log extension you named in the Terminal command.
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