Re: tailing rotating log files

1999-09-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Jim B wrote: > Brad: thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. > > The version of tail included with "slink" does not have this functionality. > What would be the recommended means of upgrading? > > b) get potato source deb and make

Re: tailing rotating log files

1999-09-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Sep, Jim B wrote about "Re: tailing rotating log files" > Brad: thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for. > > The version of tail included with "slink" does not have this functionality. > What would be the recommended means of upgrading? > > a

Re: tailing rotating log files

1999-09-19 Thread Jim B
; concept in .deb format, where the package is all laid out and just needs to be re-compiled and re-packaged. Thanks for all the help. (I love this list.) :) - Original Message - From: Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian-user Sent: Sunday,

Re: tailing rotating log files

1999-09-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 19 Sep 1999, Jim B wrote: > Hi, I generallly keep some of my log files open ni a terminal via tail -f. > For example: > tail -f /var/log/messages > > However, tail does not "move" to the new "messages" (or whatever) log file > when they are rotated by s

tailing rotating log files

1999-09-19 Thread Jim B
Hi, I generallly keep some of my log files open ni a terminal via tail -f. For example: tail -f /var/log/messages However, tail does not "move" to the new "messages" (or whatever) log file when they are rotated by savelog. So for example, I will still see the last lines from the old messages file