Re: problem with tail

Philip Rowlands <[email protected]> Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:23:26 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs,gmane.comp.gnu.textutils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Anquijix Schiptara wrote:

>I often use tail to see, what's being logged. After tail is runnin a while,
>it doesnt update the output anymore and I have to restart the command.
>Whats the reason?

The logfile is being rotated, and you didn't use tail's -F flag?


Cheers,
Phil