Re: Logfile surveillance (Was: Re: LOTS of Orbs hits)

[Peter van Dijk]

On Tue, Jun 08, 1999 at 05:44:56PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Lorens Kockum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > In fact, 'tail -f $FILE | less +F' is no good either.  OK, so 'tail -f
> > $FILE | grep $TRIGGERS', my xterm scrollbar, and a 'less' on the side
> > will suffice until I get the time to patch 'less' to get the feature I
> > want.  Sorry for the off-topic posts.
> 
> Using tail -f $FILE | less, I'm seeing delays of about a second, but not
> more than that.

tail _always_ waits one second before trying the read again.

Greetz, Peter
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