Administering/monitoring windows environments from Ubuntu

[LoydGravitt]

I am a Database Administrator who manages both Oracle databases on Solaris and SQL Server databases on Windows. I use one Ubuntu workspace to keep multiple tabbed gnome terminal sessions into each of my database servers (windows filesystems are mounted as Linux mountpoints using cifs).

To keep a constant watch on my Unix/Oracle logs is easy using tail -f to watch error messages come in throughout the day. But for windows, even though I can use tail -f, the log files do not refresh real time like they do in UNIX land. Is there any way I can use some tool or package to replicate the functionality of unix tail -f on a windows ntfs file system mounted on Ubuntu?

My current version is Ubuntu 9.10.

Thanks in advance!!!!

[Rubberman]

Unfortunately, this is a Windows problem in that when a file is opened for write, you can't read it, or at least can't read changes, with another application. If the files are accessible from the Windows event/log viewer, or if there is a SQL Server tool to view logs in real-time, you may need to use that. Unfortunately, that means you need to run a Windows UI. I use VNC from Ubuntu or RHEL to do that on my Windows systems.