[GH-ISSUE #95] ability to tail output which is being redirected to stdout/stderr? #67

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opened 2026-03-03 16:04:10 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

kerem commented

2026-03-03 16:04:10 +03:00

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Originally created by @leonstafford on GitHub (Apr 10, 2017).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/mthenw/frontail/issues/95

I have a log file in a Docker container, which is symlinked to /dev/stderr. Have been tailing this with built-in tail command, now want to serve this using frontail. Other log files which are not symlinked are being served fine by frontail.

Do you know of a way I may be able to overcome this?

Originally created by @leonstafford on GitHub (Apr 10, 2017). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/mthenw/frontail/issues/95 I have a log file in a Docker container, which is symlinked to `/dev/stderr`. Have been tailing this with built-in `tail` command, now want to serve this using `frontail`. Other log files which are not symlinked are being served fine by `frontail`. Do you know of a way I may be able to overcome this?

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@mthenw commented on GitHub (Apr 10, 2017):

As there is no support for files like /dev/stderr you can use frontail together with tail:

tail /dev/stderr | frontail -

@mthenw commented on GitHub (Apr 10, 2017): As there is no support for files like `/dev/stderr` you can use frontail together with tail: ``` tail /dev/stderr | frontail - ```

kerem commented

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@leonstafford commented on GitHub (Apr 10, 2017):

Awesome, thanks!

@leonstafford commented on GitHub (Apr 10, 2017): Awesome, thanks!

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