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[moving to bug-coreutils, which is the address listed in tail --help] According to dae3 on 3/31/2009 8:54 AM: > Hello, > > I just wanted to report that `tail -f` - at least when running in the > background - doesn't always output the latest additions to the watched > file. > > For example, I always have `tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log` running in > the background. I just discovered new (not necessarily recent) additions > to the 'error_log' file that were never reported by `tail`. This has > happened to me several other times. > > > -----BEGIN VERSION INFO----- > ~> tail --version > tail (GNU coreutils) 5.97 This may be your problem. You are using something that is three years old, and which has had bug fixes in the meantime. The latest stable coreutils release is 7.2; you should try upgrading and seeing if that fixes the problem. If, after upgrading, you can still reproduce things, please show us the exact command line you used to trigger the problem. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [email protected] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknTWq4ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYCpuACeIrybE5v30wjTh5IGGs50sY9U C7wAnikuWjtkRhHM8JlmZrZbKW2nqOar =v6O/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
