Web implementation of “tail -f filename”?

Question

I have a log file and want to create a webpage (possibly Python but not strictly) that will work much like unix \"tail -f filename\" command works (show new log lines when t

Answer 1

You read the file and print the last lines to the page. You might also use a GET-variable to you define number of rows to output using ?n=x where x is the number of lines.