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Article:		Apache Web-Serving with Mac OS X: Part 2
Subject:		very helpful but...
Date:		2001-12-17 13:42:39
From:		morbus
Response to: very helpful but...
Swatson, Thanks for the comments. By default, BBEdit 6.5 doesn't install the Unix shell command. You should be able to find an installer on the BBEdit 6.5 cd (or ESD) that will allow you to install the shell utilities. What sort of error message did you get when you tried to tail the access_log?

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• very helpful but...
  2001-12-17 23:04:27  cp21yos [View]
  
  
  I've just gone back and checked my terminal (I worked through the article as I read it) and I was using the auto-complete function to fill out the path & file names so I didn't notice that it had filled out:
  tail /var/log/httpd/access_log
  
  If I list the directory you can see that an underscore is used...
  [cto:~] cto% l /var/log/httpd/
  total 8
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 0 Nov 16 17:16 access_log
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4008 Dec 2 11:11 error_log
  
  
  Great Articles by the way.

• very helpful but...
  2001-12-17 19:37:13  swatson [View]
  
  
  thanks for the bbedit tip works now.
  the instructions say
  "Apache's access file is located in /var/log/httpd/access.log. Let's look at the very last lines of that file, easily reached with this command:
  
  tail /var/log/httpd/access.log"
  
  when actually I had to use:
  tail /var/log/httpd/access_log