At 10:02 PM -0400 10/23/02, Sherm Pendley wrote:
Here's a tip: If you're doing web development, Console.app is insanely great. Start it up, open the "/var/log/httpd/error_log" file, and then hide the app. Whenever an error is logged, Console.app automatically unhides itself to show you the error.This was working fine for me (and it *is* insanely great) until a few days ago. Now what shows up in Console is the system log. When I try to open the httpd logs, they're greyed out in the Console Open dialog; most other logs seem accessible.[1]
The only thing I can think of that might have changed something was that I innocently tried out the latest BBEdit shell worksheet's sample to build Chimera. After a long process, the build failed, and I deleted the directory I'd created for it. Might be irrelevant, but I have no other leads.[2]
I've gone back to Terminal.app, using
% tail -f -n20 /var/log/httpd/error_log
This works fine, and is almost as handy as using the Console, but the latter's ability to jump to the front when an error happens is ideal.
Any thoughts?
Notes:
[1] Looking at the files,
[Franklin:var/log/httpd] bva% ls -l
total 24176
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 411816 Nov 25 21:28 access_log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 11963403 Nov 26 09:39 error_log
[2] The worksheet has this:
#### BBEdit worksheet quote ###
# You can also "batch" operations together.
#
# Build a copy of Chimera:
cd ~/Projects
setenv CVSROOT :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot
cvs login
# when prompted for the password, select 'anonymous' and press Command+Return to send it
cvs co mozilla/client.mk
cd mozilla
make -w -f client.mk
cd embedding/config
make
cd ../../..
cvs co mozilla/chimera
cd mozilla/chimera
pbxbuild -buildstyle "Deployment" install
### End BBEdit worksheet quote ###
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- Bruce
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