On 02/05/18 06:39, Jewsco Pius Jacquez wrote: > I tried and the --follow=name doesn't refresh either. The stat output is > changing. > > [jjacquez@cmilsbtest03 ~]$ tail --follow=name /media/samba/test.file > append Wed May 2 08:35:54 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:35:54 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:35:54 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:35:54 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:35:54 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:35:54 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:35:54 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:35:54 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:35:54 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:35:55 CDT 2018 > ^C > [jjacquez@cmilsbtest03 ~]$ tail --follow=name /media/samba/test.file > append Wed May 2 08:36:01 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:36:01 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:36:01 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:36:02 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:36:02 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:36:02 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:36:02 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:36:02 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:36:02 CDT 2018 > append Wed May 2 08:36:02 CDT 2018 > ^C > [jjacquez@cmilsbtest03 ~]$ while :; do stat -c '%s' /media/samba/test.file; > sleep 1; done > 1649717 > 1650077 > 1650401 > 1650761 > 1651121 > 1651445 > 1651769 > 1652093 > 1652417 > > > About the reverting the patch, so I need to download the source and patch it? > > cd coreutils-8.29 && > wget 'https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/commit/7fc7206.patch' -O- | > patch -R -p1 && > make
You'd done that previously, for for completeness yes you need to download the source first like: wget https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/coreutils/coreutils-8.29.tar.xz tar -xf coreutils-8.29.tar.xz thanks, Pádraig