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Article #4067Re: tail -f and log file rotation
From: Barry Margolin
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 22:09
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2001 22:09
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In article <t9thrboar8bh8e@corp.supernews.com>, Vince <vlasfargues@yahoo.com> 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? Practically all Linux utilities come from GNU. So if Linux has tailf, you can probably find it in the GNU fileutils, which should port to most versions of Unix. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net Genuity, Burlington, MA *** DON'T SEND TECHNICAL QUESTIONS DIRECTLY TO ME, post them to newsgroups. Please DON'T copy followups to me -- I'll assume it wasn't posted to the group.
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