Display the contents of a log file as it is updated

Question

I have external programs such as ffmpeg and gstreamer running in the background and writing to a log file. I want to display the contents of this log with my Flask applicat

Answer 1

I am using frontail package from npm.

npm i frontail -g
frontail /var/log/syslog

visit http://127.0.0.1:9001 to view logs

Source: https://github.com/mthenw/frontail

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Display the contents of a log file as it is updated