TailIIS 1.0

Syntax: TailIIS filename

TailIIS displays the last 10 lines of a Microsoft Internet Information Server log file. Most tail programs don't skip the trailing #0 characters appended to these logs, TailIIS will. It will scan the specified file untill it finds a #0 character or reaches the end of the file. It will check the log file every 3 seconds and output new lines appended to the log to standard output. Ctrl-C will terminate TailIIS.

filename: Specifies the file name of the log to tail.

Example: TailIIS C:\WINNT\system32\LogFiles\W3SVC1\ex011009.log

Monitors and outputs changes made to the web server log of 9 october 2001: ex011009.log.