You often want to have some indicator that you are tailing the log rather than simply having the log been output to standard output directly. A colleague of mi

You often want to have some indicator that you are tailing the log rather than simply having the log been output to standard output directly. A colleague of mine once Ctrl-C'd a trading server which he thought was the tail of the servers log. This happened at an extremely embarrassing moment, and after he had spent hours rebuilding all the trades in the databases, and being constantly shouted at by irate traders, he had to take a couple of days off to recover. So, my advice is always make direct server output stand out in some way (colour, whatever). And, of course think about trapping signals, though this is often not as easy as it might seem.