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[GH-ISSUE #48] Select file to tail from frontend? #30
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Originally created by @jamesmr89 on GitHub (Apr 28, 2015).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/mthenw/frontail/issues/48
Would it be possible to change the file being watched from the front end?
IE I have a drive with hundreds of logfiles that are constantly being written to and new ones created constantly. I'd like to be able to feed an argument when landing on frontail page to select the file to be tailed:
http://localhost:9001/mydir/myfile.log
Would that be possible, without spawning a new instance of frontail for each file to be watched?
Thanks,
james
@mikeatlas commented on GitHub (Jun 9, 2015):
👍 nice idea
@matteocontrini commented on GitHub (Jul 5, 2015):
Definitely 👍 on this
@mikeatlas commented on GitHub (Jul 6, 2015):
You'd probably want some kind of wildcard/regex option on the startup command line options for which ones are whitelist-safe to browse from the frontend.
@jamesmr89 commented on GitHub (Jul 6, 2015):
@mikeatlas
@mthenw commented on GitHub (Jul 6, 2015):
Looks like the most requested feature, haha. I will be off for next two weeks but after that I will try to do something with that.
Still, thanks for reminding.
@codeskyblue commented on GitHub (Jul 20, 2015):
really want it.
@jamesmr89 commented on GitHub (Sep 10, 2015):
Hi @mthenw, just wanted to see if you had any idea on a time frame on this?
Thanks,
~
@mthenw commented on GitHub (Sep 16, 2015):
@jamesmr89 TBH, I completely don't have time right now to do that. Also, the truth is that I don't feel that this feature should be in frontail. It supposed to be very simple tool. With this feature it become to remote file explorer. Not sure if this is a common knowledge but you can use
*in a file path e.g.frontail /var/log/system*.I will leave this issue open for discussion but I'm not planning to implement this right now.
@matteocontrini commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2015):
You could add something about the
*in the readme, at least@mthenw commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2015):
@matteocontrini good point :)
github.com/mthenw/frontail@3df000920c