Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes • Hacker News Board

Re: Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

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Post by icebraining » Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 8:19 AM UTC

rmetzler wrote: post #19

What is the difference to using websocketd [1] to stream to a socket.io client? [1] https://github.com/joewalnes/websocketd

This is a full solution with web app and such; websocketd is just a communication tool, which could be used to build something like rtail.

Re: Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

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Post by ilovefood » Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 8:35 AM UTC

Superb, just installed it, setup took 1 minute and now I'm tailing 24 logs on one single page.

Thanks A LOT!

Re: Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

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Post by otherusername2 » Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 9:16 AM UTC

Is there a XSS exploit in this? I just clicked on the 'alert' stream, and it displayed two alert dialogs.

Re: Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

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Post by chinathrow » Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 9:25 AM UTC

Yes, flash 0days piped via terminal :)

Re: Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

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Post by Cthulhu_ » Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 10:37 AM UTC

I got rick rolled :(. Probably an exploit in there.

Re: Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

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Post by ll_cool_james » Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 10:38 AM UTC

otherusername2 wrote: post #23

Is there a XSS exploit in this? I just clicked on the 'alert' stream, and it displayed two alert dialogs.

I think there is. I keep getting redirected to a 10 hour rick roll youtube video

Re: Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

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Post by fazza99 » Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 10:42 AM UTC

lol. nice rickroll

Re: Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 10:42 AM UTC

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Re: Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

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Post by deanstag » Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 1:43 PM UTC

krakensden wrote: post #13

deanstag wrote: post #5

I am curious. What is the usecase of this?

ring ring ring Hello? The smoke tests are failing and Kibana isn't returning anything from the past 10 minutes inaudible $ for i in grotty_old_server{1..10}; do ssh root@i "tail -f /var/log/froznob/goddamn-custom-logging-system" | rtail &; done Are you still there? Half of the servers are spewing the same stacktrace 200 times a second.

I meant whats the advantage of viewing it in browser? Couldnt you go through the output in a terminal with multiplexers and tail?

Re: Rtail – Terminal output to the browser using Unix pipes

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Post by paste0x78 » Wed, Jul 08, 2015, 1:58 PM UTC

ll_cool_james wrote: post #26

otherusername2 wrote: post #23

Is there a XSS exploit in this? I just clicked on the 'alert' stream, and it displayed two alert dialogs.

I think there is. I keep getting redirected to a 10 hour rick roll youtube video

Ya loads http://bit.ly/1LRJuun that redirects to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BROWqjuTM0g&insecure_code=tr...

42["line",{"timestamp":1436363693619,"streamid":"rtail.org","host":"176.199.140.33","port":50049,"content":"window.top.location.href=\"","type":"string"}" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/1LRJuun\"","type":"string"}]