Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 00:59:46 -0600 From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Matt Simerson <matt@cadillac.mi.us> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Suggestion for making FreeBSD better. Message-ID: <20001102005946.C19243@bonsai.knology.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0011020152200.22396-100000@www.cadillac.mi.us>; from matt@cadillac.mi.us on Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:55:06AM -0500 References: <Pine.BSI.4.21.0011020152200.22396-100000@www.cadillac.mi.us>
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On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 01:55:06AM -0500, Matt Simerson wrote:
#
# 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.
Doesn't 'tail -F some_file' do this already? From the manpage:
-F The -F option implies the -f option, but tail will also check to
see if the file being followed has been renamed or rotated. The
file is closed and reopened when tail detects that the filename
being read from has a new inode number. The -F option is ignored
if reading from standard input rather than a file.
-steve
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