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You don't have to use log files.

In your launch file, you can send a node's messages to stdout (rather than to a log file) by adding the attribute output="screen" to the node's entry in the launch file.

Or you can install the rqt_console utility from apt, and review the log messages in real-time. This requires a desktop.

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