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Console.app does this for you
Authored by: Graff on May 27, '04 04:51:39AM

The Console.app located in /Applications/Utilities/ does this automatically for you in a nice, neat GUI package. Console.app is basically a front-end to the tail shell tool.

Just open the log file from Console.app and it will open in its own window. If you keep it running in the background it will even notify you if the log has been updated. You can also keep Console.app in the Dock and drag a log file onto it to open the log file. If you quit Console.app when you have open log files then the log files will be re-opened and displayed the next time you run it

- Graff



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Console.app does this for you
Authored by: nhajratw on May 27, '04 12:49:25PM

Unfortunately, using Console by itself doesn't address the problem of a *new* file being created for whatever reason. It only deals with updating of the file it currently has open.



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