View files online that are offline.

I know, I know, the topic sounds odd, but after I explain everything, it'll be easy for you geeks out there (just kidding). Well heres the story, I have a program that I run everytime I sleep or leave the house, and it keeps a log on everything it does into a .txt, so when I'm out I want to beable to view the logs online, is there a way I can view it online as it always updates? Any necessary programs involved?

Thanks, in advance.

-Tony

You have two major options

A remote method of accessing the pc in question or creating a web page to view the files.

So question 1, from where do you think you will be accessing the log files... work, internet cafe, web enabled phone?

Hi,
There is a third option - sending the file (SMTP/FTP) to a remote online location.
This can be done quite easily by a scheduled Batch file.

For SMTP you can use BLAT
http://www.blat.net/
or Febooti
http://www.febooti.com/products/command-line-email/


WindowsXP has built in FTP - and using Batch scripts there are quite easy:
for more info - go
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/96269


Cheers,
Gabriel

i'll look into those options, thanks alot
and i'd be looking at these log files at work, school and other places if i wanna check what has happen

edit:
i looked at the windows ftp batch script, and i understand that you can use it to upload a file, but how do i have it upload on a frequent basis, ie. one hour.

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Originally Posted by xShrimp

i'll look into those options, thanks alot
and i'd be looking at these log files at work, school and other places if i wanna check what has happen

edit:
i looked at the windows ftp batch script, and i understand that you can use it to upload a file, but how do i have it upload on a frequent basis, ie. one hour.

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Make the batch script delete the "old" file (the one on the FTP "side"), and upload the new file. Schedule the batch to run Hourly...

Example (to the SCR file):
user
guest
guest
delete file1
put file1
quit


Helped?

Cheers,
Gabriel