Forgot to mention: I'm using tail from coreutils 5.0. On Wednesday 18 February 2004 01:08, you wrote: > 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.
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