Windows - How to remotely watch log files

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Published on 2010-09-16T07:17:09Z Indexed on 2011/01/15 8:54 UTC
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I would like to look at some log files solely via the console on a standard Windows 7 machine. The logs are created by schedulded tasks and I find it a hazzle to use VNC for this purpose.
What technology should I look at? Powershell, Cygwin via ssh or something else? The log files are written using log4Net - thus there might also be an easy way to reconfigure it to create events or something else for remote display.

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