On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 10:37:31AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Jos Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The `date' output shows up in the tail output. Also, this change only stops > > reading from the old file once the new file has some content. At that time > > the > > old file is read until EOF and closed before starting on the new file. > > What if the old file keeps growing?
"Too bad." With proper log rotation this never happens anyway. Perhaps this solution isn't perfect, but as it stands today `tail -F' is broken for tailing logfiles in that it _will_ lose data when the file is rotated. My test setup proves this. So something _has_ to be done. -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
