On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 12:26:10PM +0100, Christian Kurz wrote: > > Well, this is a feature that tail on FreeBSD has. If you start it with > -F, it will tail you the current file like our tail -f. But if know the > logfile will be rotated, it will notice this and reopen the new current > one and tail this one. This is a feature that I really miss in GNU tail. in fact GNU tail does have this feature, its just done a bit differently: tail --follow=name --retry /var/log/messages ive been using this for ages without any problems, works quite nicely with log rotation, tail just outputs a message saying the file has been replaced, and follows the new one. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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