ssh tailer for non-x86?

[iode131]

Hi,
I'd really like to be able to tail logs on embedded devices via SSH. Specifically ARM based, RaspberryPi, ...

Are there any plans for that?

[tstack]

It's certainly possible, the tailer is some pretty simple C code:

https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/src/tailer/tailer.main.c
https://github.com/tstack/lnav/blob/master/src/tailer/tailer.c

There's probably some endian-ness issues to fix. The main issue is deployment. The current implementation relies on the "portable executable" magic to allow a single binary to work on most x86 systems. So, it's a matter of "chuck it on the other side and hope for the best". Supporting other architectures would require an extra step to identify the remote system and then checking which executable file to send over.

I'm certainly not opposed to it, but it's not something I would use at the moment and I don't have an rPI. So, I probably won't get to it soon.

[maxim-lbmv]

Why can't you just use rsync to update the data periodically?