I've read the archives (now that I found it) about other people posting about this. However, this does not change the fact that linux's version of tail works plenty fine with viewing IIS logfiles vs. Cygwin's version of tail.
-----Original Message----- From: Matthew Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:39 AM To: Cygwin Cc: Scott Alexander Subject: Re: tail -f problem This is not the fault of tail, rather IIS. Search the archives if you're interested why. cheers, -Matt Smith > With cygwin's tail, the output is not quite the same as the linux version of > tail. With Cygwin's version, I will get output with tail -f, but the > updates aren't "realtime" as the linux version -- the updates are barely > shown at all, if ever. Here are the different methods I used to try and > parse the IIS log file: > Thanks, > -Scott -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
