From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 1 22:55:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.cadillac.mi.us (www.cadillac.mi.us [208.246.108.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DC54E37B4CF for ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 22:55:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 1736 invoked by uid 100); 2 Nov 2000 06:55:06 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Nov 2000 06:55:06 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 01:55:06 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Simerson To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Suggestion for making FreeBSD better. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At BSDCon this year I sat in on a conference that was suggesting ways of making FreeBSD better than the other guys. I just thought of a good idea but don't know who to send it to. How about making tail smart enough to realize that the file it was watching just got rotated and that it should start over reading from the beginning of the file? Basic rule is, if the file size changes to zero, start over. If I could code I'd hack it up myself and submit diffs. Matt ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` Matt Simerson http://matt.cadillac.mi.us/ Unix Systems Engineer http://www.hostpro.com/ If you keep an open mind people will throw a lot of garbage in. ```````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````````` To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message