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[โ€“] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Old school. Also the flip side:

sudo tail -f /<path to server>/error.log

[โ€“] darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

Using -F with tail is even better than -f because it handles files getting truncated or getting created.