On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 01:38:03PM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote: > Today, Christian Kurz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, this is a feature that tail on FreeBSD has. If you start it with > > -F, it will tail you the current file like our tail -f. But if know the > > logfile will be rotated, it will notice this and reopen the new current > > one and tail this one. This is a feature that I really miss in GNU tail. > > Uh, is this what you mean? > > $ echo bar > /tmp/foo > $ tail -f /tmp/foo & (sleep 1; echo baz >> /tmp/foo; > sleep 1; echo qux > /tmp/foo) > bar[time passes] > baz[time passes] > ==> /tmp/foo: file truncated <== > qux > $ fg > ^C > $ tail --version > tail (GNU textutils) 2.0
No, this is a truncated file. Christian was talking about a renamed and recreated file, which requires a different sort of watching. As someone else pointed out in this thread, GNU tail uses --follow=name to do the right thing in this case. -- - mdz
