Re: logging Q's for stretch

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Wed 05 Jun 2019 at 22:25:07 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> Since upgrading to stretch, my syslog is being spammed by freshclam, 
> clamav, and spamd. These has their own logs in wheezy, so syslog was how 
> I kept track of the hardware.
> 
> 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, whereas I could just leave it run for a couple months and 
> the "tail" would also remain current but now I am lucky to get 3 days 
> before the display is hung again  I'd like to fix both problems if 
> possible.
> 
> How on stretch?

I wasn't aware things had changed since … . I use tail -F, but adding
--retry is another way.

Cheers,
David.