Hi, I think i may have found a bug in tail. Recently I have tried to let my Linux server/router automatically read each new line that is added to /var/log/messages, through my speakers. I use the Festival text-to-speech engine (http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/) to do so. So, when issuing the command
tail -n1 -f /var/log/messages |./festival --tts I expected to hear just that - every newline. Instead, the speech will stop after a number of words have been spoken (the number is not always the same). However, when the -f option is omitted, the last log entry is spoken completely. That's why I suspect this to be a problem in tail, not is Festival. The strange thing is, if i just run tail -n1 -f /var/log/messages everything is fine: each newline is printed to stdout. The problem arises when I connect Festival to the pipe. So that seems to indicate that the problem has to do with festival. I'm not sure though. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. -- Met vriendelijke groeten, With kind regards, Peter Postmus _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
