Fwd: Re: OT: tail -f | while read

[Martin F Krafft <madduck@madduck.net>]

meant to send this to the list...

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also sprach Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima (on Fri, 07 Sep 2001 08:44:50AM +0800):
> Here is a far more complicated perl script that make the "tail -f" part of the
> actual application.  It is designed to run as a daemon ie
> # logtail /var/log/syslog &

very nice, *but* -- and this is a problem i am currently struggling
with... what if the syslog file gets rotated away by logrotate or
other means? i don't particularly want to modify logrotate for this...
how can you make a script detect that the name of the file of the
inode it is following changes, and then to reattach to the new
file/inode?

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