Lisp:tail.el is a small interface for the unix tool tail.
(Alternatively, those with emacs 22 or later can use M-x auto-revert-tail-mode)
Put tail.el in your load-path and this in your .emacs file:
(require 'tail)
Alternatively you can use autoload (replace <path> with to local path):
(autoload 'tail-file "<path>/tail.el" "Tail a file." t) (autoload 'tail-command "<path>/tail.el" "Tail a file with arguments." t)
Using the tail-file command with /var/log/syslog:

Not guaranteed to work. http://www.grassouille.org/code/sources/tail.el http://inferno.cs.univ-paris8.fr/~drieu/hacks/sources/tail.el http://www.drieu.org/code/sources/tail.el