Remote docker logs

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I manage containers on many servers, wich often don't have lnav / the right version of lnav. The docker URL seems very handy, but I whish there was a way to use it remotely.

Describe the solution you'd like

lnav user@server:docker://container

[tstack]

How do you envision this working? Would lnav ssh to the remote host and run docker logs?

[Campano]

At the moment, I'm using this:

ssh user@server "docker exec -i containername tail -n +0 -F /path/to/log" | lnav

It works, but has two problems:

1. in some cases, like scrolling up after the begining of the file, it stops and sends an exit message ⓘ info: 500KB of data from stdin was captured and will be saved for one day. You can reopen it by running: lnav piper://etc
2. I need to remember the command / save it somewhere (from what i understood i could just create a custom URL...)

[tstack]

ssh user@server ...

I think you need to pass -n to ssh so that it doesn't listen to stdin, which can mess things up (see #531).