Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 11:27:32AM +0000, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Dec 2000 08:36:34 -0500, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>
> wrote:
> >Though maybe this program is forcing itself on the wrong interface to syslog.
> >Maybe it should really be reading from a fifo, a la /dev/xconsole, rather than
> >trying to read from files.
>
> Having this, it would be impossible to scroll back beyond the point
> syslog was when the less process was started
Depending on the situation, that could be either better or worse than the
current situation (where it is impossible to scroll back once the logfile has
been rotated). It is only worse for the first rotation period; after that,
there will be more data in less than in the logfile.
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- mdz
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