Re: tail -f and log file rotation

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From: Paul Sack
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 03:00

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In article <t9thrboar8bh8e@corp.supernews.com>, Vince wrote:
>I suppose I'm not the only one to have the following problem:
>
>I use "tail -f" to get the new entries in the syslog file. But when the file
>is renamed  (because it's too big or too old), tail is stuck on the renamed
>file, which is not appended anymore.
>I've heard about "tailf" (linux) or the option "tail -fname", but there is
>nothing like that on Solaris, HP-UX or AIX.
>
>Where can I get some source code to build my own tail that will support this
>option or will follow and returned the entries inserted in the new syslog
>file?

I had another idea that we used at $EMPLOYER[-1].

Make a named pipe. Add this named pipe to syslog.conf. Do ``tail -f'' with
named pipe.

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