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Top Forums UNIX for Beginners Questions & Answers Tail -f Command help Post 303026880 by Corona688 on Tuesday 4th of December 2018 01:20:12 PM
Old 12-04-2018
To repeat: Files do not work that way. Even when you share the file -- which you can't without big changes in your server -- you'll be stuck running tail -f in a local terminal instead of a remote one, because text editors don't work that way either.
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Files do not work that way.
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Files do not work that way.
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Because files don't work that way.

It would be worth your while to reconsider the problem from any other angle besides "magically growing file", or better yet, explain what you actually want. You might be quite surprised when you go through all the trouble of setting up an NFS only to discover that what you thought you needed hasn't actually solved your problems. tail -f in putty actually works surprisingly well.

Perhaps, is the problem the inconvenience of having to type passwords into putty? There are automatic login features you could be using. putty can do logging, also, and even network forwarding, allowing you to connect to services on the server.

Otherwise, you have information you wish to transmit from point A to point B in realtime. Perhaps netcat?

You could do full-out network or centralized logging, perhaps, and have an infrastructure to warn you of certain events.

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NAME
Murmur - PyGTK2 client for museek SYNOPSIS
murmur [-c --config <filename>] [-l --log <directory>] [-v] [--version] [-d] [-h] [--help] DESCRIPTION
Murmur provides a GTK2 interface for the Museek Daemon for chatting, transferring files, managing users, viewing user info and browsing shares on the Soulseek P2P network and Soulfind Servers. You will need a configured and running museekd(1). OPTIONS
Murmur accepts the following options: -c <filename>, --config <filename> Use a different config file. -l <directory>, --log <directory> Use a different chat log directory. -v, --version Display Version and exit. -d Display debug messages while running. -h, --help Display Help and exit. EXAMPLE
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