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Madness or brilliance (feddit.org)

submitted 1 year ago by cm0002@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Old school. Also the flip side:

sudo tail -f /<path to server>/error.log

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[–] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 2 points 1 year ago

Using -F with tail is even better than -f because it handles files getting truncated or getting created.

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