I've just noticed that `tail -f` will not work over NFS
as changes on the remote system will not go through
the local VFS and so will not be noticed by inotify.
Testing with `tail -s.1 ---disable-inotify` does get the
changes noticed, albeit after a delay of 3s on my setup.
So what to do? I suppo
Added bug-coreutils@gnu.org, which I missed on the reply below...
-- Forwarded message --
From: Chris Clayton
Date: 2009/12/12
Subject: Re: 'make check' failure with coreutils-8.2
To: Jim Meyering
2009/12/12 Jim Meyering :
> Chris Clayton wrote:
>> I've just built coreutils-8.
Marc Perkel wrote:
> Just noticed this having upgraded to Fedora 12. I use tail -F to
> follow a file that vanishes and is recreated once a minute. It works
> for some time but eventually tail quits and goes back to the command
> prompt. Just thought I'd let you know in case you changed something.
Just noticed this having upgraded to Fedora 12. I use tail -F to follow
a file that vanishes and is recreated once a minute. It works for some
time but eventually tail quits and goes back to the command prompt. Just
thought I'd let you know in case you changed something.
tail: `info.log' has b
Chris Clayton wrote:
> I've just built coreutils-8.2 and make check fails and asks for a report to
> this mail address.
> configure is run thusly:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-acl --disable-rpath --disable-nls
> --disable-xattr
...
Thanks for the report. What type of system are you u
