I don't have root access on my hosted web server, but I would like to use tools like MultiTail to monitor log files that are generated on my web host.
Is there a way I can pipe the log output on my remote host ( I have ssh access ), to my locally running MultiTail?
The local machine is running Ubuntu 9.04. The remote machine is running FreeBSD 6.
The answer in a nut-shell:
1) Set up key-based login for ssh.
2) Execute the following command:
multitail -l "ssh -l USER HOST tail -f ./www_logs/access_log" -l "ssh -l USER2 HOST2 tail -f ./www_logs/access_log"