Hi, I have a strange problem viewing data in real time. I wonder can anyone help?
I run tail -f on a file which is served by a windows 2000 machine. I start a simple program running on windows 2000 which writes numbered lines of text to this file. I notice that tail -f is missing some of the lines. If I edit the file afterwards the data is there it's just that tail seems to miss bits of it when viewing it in real time. [Background] Redhat 6.2 2.2.19-6.2.16 Samba 2.2.5 Windows 2000 [reproduce by] cd /share/mount/point touch sean.txt tail -f sean.txt | tee /tmp/sean-tail.txt start program on windows 2000 I stop the Windows 2000 process. I compare sean.txt and /tmp/sean-tail.txt and they are different. [already tried] upgrading to latest RH kernel and samba stable. handwritten tool to ensure tail was not acting crazy. Can anyone help me with this? I noticed some other reports of problems with tail -f in the archive, but they appear to be a different problem. Thanks, Sean.
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