macOS Accessing the console via the terminal?

[sebf]

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!

 

[mkrishnan]

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.

 

[Sayer]

You can use 'tail' to see the last bits of a log file. You said HTTP/PHP so you would use:

tail /var/log/httpd/access.log

or

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

cd

to

/var/log/httpd

and do an ls and see what log you want to peek in is called.