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Re: logging Q's for stretch



On Thursday 06 June 2019 08:27:28 am Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:25:07PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > So syslog is growing rapidly and gets rotated in just a day or so,
> > and that means a "tail -fn xxx" watching it is stuck looking at the
> > old file,
>
> That's what tail -F (capital F) is for.

Humm,, obviously I haven't read the man page recently.  Thanks for the 
reminder.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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