Re: tail broken (?!) and devices not activating

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:44:29 -0400
Tim Tebbit <ttebbit@gmail.com> wrote:

> Celejar wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm seeing some really weird problems on my system.  I don't know if
> > they're at all related, but I'll report them both in the same
> > email, in case they are.
> > 
> > 1) tail -f stops working - I see the tail of the file, but it fails
> > to refresh when content is added to the file.  What on earth could
> > be causing this?  This is tail from coreutils - nothing fancy, no
> > inotify dependency, just simple polling of the file!
> 
> ----8<----
> 
> > 
> > Anyone have any ideas of where I can look to try to track this stuff
> > down?
> > 
> > Celejar
> 
> I also noticed this the other day. tail -F seems to work as I expected
> tail -f to.

Thanks, but I get the same thing with '-F'

Celejar
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