<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Digimer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@alteeve.com">linux@alteeve.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
'Alo all,<br>
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I need to "tail -f" a file, and I've accomplished that using this:<br></blockquote><div><br>... snip ...<br><br>Although I can't really help on the issue your asking,<br>I can (possibly) throw in another monkey-wrench...<br>
<br>Another thing to consider is: 'what happens when the logfile<br>you're watching is rotated out from underneath you?' <br><br>You sort of need to check that the inode hasn't changed<br>and reopen, etc. it it has.<br>
<br></div></div>Fulko<br><br>