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Article #4070Re: tail -f and log file rotation
From: Paul Sack
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:00
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 06:00
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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. Another thing you can do is tell logrotate[0] to copy the log file to its new place, then truncate the log file. i.e. cp messages to messages.1 and truncate messages. Then everything will work. There are opinions on whether or not this is a good thing. You *can* lose a few messages between when the copy occurs and the file is truncated. [0] I assume this is what you are using. -- Schizophrenia beats being alone.
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