Re: Reading log files and streaming them on a website

On 2026-01-20, Tom Smyth <tom.smyth@wirelessconnect.eu> wrote:
>
> do any of you do the equivalent of tail -f /var/log/syslog and somehow
> pipe it to a web application that would display that content on a
> webpage...
>
> Im trying to stream logs for a tool to then filter and display for my
> helpdesk / NOC team...

There are various programs designed for this but all of the ones I can
find are difficult to use on OpenBSD (usually either written in go or
javascript, and with a javascript front-end that needs building),
they're certainly very difficult to write a port for, and even just
building separately seems tricky for the ones I tried.

e.g.

https://github.com/mishankov/web-tail
https://github.com/prateeknischal/webtail (also wants PAM; not sure if openpam will do)
https://github.com/jdrews/logstation
https://github.com/logdyhq/logdy-core
https://github.com/mthenw/frontail

Possible alternative, can you use something like lnav or multitail run
inside a browser-based terminal (e.g. ttyd)? or if it doesn't absolutely
need to be browser-based, you could setup a user account to automatically
run one of those at login and have them ssh in instead.

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