forwardho
Tails a file. it should work great. it will continue to work even if a file is unlinked rotated or truncated. It is also ok if the path doesnt exist before watching it
Example
if you install globally you will get forwardho as a command it accepts options as arguments or reads them from the most local forwardho.json
$> forwardho
as a library
var forwardho = client = ;
to shutdown
client;## install npm install -g forwardho ### library argument structure client = ; - options supported custom options are ```js { "logs":[], "host":"localhost", "port":5140, "keepAlive":true, "keepAliveInterval":10000, "reconnectInitialTimeout":100, "reconnectMaxInterval":30000, "tailOptions":{} } where tailOptions can be the following tailfd options. right now tail options are always applied to all logs watched by this client. { "delimiter":"\n" //optional. defaults to newline but can be anything } // the options object is passed to watchfd as well. With watchfd you may configure { "timeout": 60*60*1000, //defaults to one hour //how long an inactive file descriptor can remain inactive before being cleared "timeoutInterval":60*5*1000 //every five minutes // how often to check for inactive file descriptors } //the options object is also passed directly to fs.watch and fs.watchFile so you may configure { "persistent":true, //defaults to true //persistent indicates whether the process should continue to run as long as files are being watched "interval":0, //defaults 0 //interval indicates how often the target should be polled, in milliseconds. (On Linux systems with inotify, interval is ignored.) } ``` #### watch file and watch may behave differently on different systems here is the doc for it - http://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_writefile_filename_data_encoding_callback- http://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_fs_watch_filename_options_listener