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gmarsi
Asked: 2020-08-30 08:28:48 +0800 CST 2020-08-30 08:28:48 +0800 CST

Show updated log in terminal

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I am developing with Django (2.2) on Ubuntu using an Apache server. How can I show, and always update, the server log record?

By not using python manage.py runserverthe logs, the logs do not appear automatically in the terminal and, every time I want to look at the logs, I have to close and reopen the file to see it updated

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  1. Best Answer

    To view the Apache log files in real time, what I use is

    tail -f logfile.log

    ...if you want more than 10 lines, you can specify it with:

    tail -n 20 logfile.log

    If you need the terminal you can always send it to run in the background and retrieve it later.

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  2. You can use the command tailwith the argument -fthat it will refresh the file every time the file changes.

    tail /var/logs/apache2/error_log -f
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