Redirecting a log file to a TCP port

[drjbrown]

Hi Guys,

I have hopefully an easy question for you all. I am in the final stages of setting up a slackware server, and I am in the need of a little help.

I would like to do is set up some sort of process to have the the /var/log/messages file redirect to a tcp network port. What I would like to be able to do is telnet to a non-standard port and have the log show up.

Is this even possible, and if so how should I go about going about this?

Thanks in advance for all the help!
Jamie

[geforce]

Well, i'm not sure it'll be possible.

But there are several ways to check your logs:

SSH to your server and look them
use special programs, such as Webmin
and so on..

But well, I need much precision about what you want to do. And one tip: use SSH instead of telnet. :P


Phil

[poopoo]

Sounds like you need to write some sort of script. Or you can use ssh as someone mentioned aboved.