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macOS Accessing the console via the terminal?

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sebf

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Just wondering if its possible to access the console via the terminal?

As it would be useful to view HTTP and PHP error messages when I am remotely connected to it via SSH.

Thanks for any tips!
 
The console log? If that's what you mean, it's in /Library/Logs/Console/yourguid. Usually, guid = 501, but you'll figure it out. So you can more, grep, cat it to your heart's desire.
 
You can use 'tail' to see the last bits of a log file. You said HTTP/PHP so you would use:

Code: 
tail /var/log/httpd/access.log

or

Code: 
tail /var/log/httpd/error.log

This is basically all that the Console.app does. Your log file names may be different, so you can always
Code: 
cd
to
Code: 
/var/log/httpd
and do an ls and see what log you want to peek in is called.
 
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