tags 10442 notabug On 01/06/2012 10:58 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: > yukuan <[email protected]> writes: > >> When I user "tail -f FILENAME" to follow a file, which is continually >> growing, the output sometimes stops. When I press ctrl-c to quit and right >> immediately follow the same file, output would continue. And I found the >> file is growing while the output stops. > > Does it also happen if you use "tail -F"?
In private mails, the user confirmed that the file is being renamed, and thus -F is required. cheers, Pádraig.
