Re: [SLUG] tail and rotated log files

Yo. Tony Sceats wrote: sounds like you want tail -F log or tail --follow=name --retry log Thanks Michael and Tony. I did some tinkering with the -F option yesterday and, yeah, looks like that one does the trick. Guess I misread the man page never used the max-unchanged-stats argument

[SLUG] tail and rotated log files

I have a script that uses `tail -f --max-unchanged-stats=5` to follow a log file. The way I read the man page, --max-unchanged-stats will cause tail to close and reopen the given file if it hasn't changed after 5 iterations. But after logrotate rotates the logfile, tail keeps watching the old

Re: [SLUG] tail and rotated log files

Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a script that uses `tail -f --max-unchanged-stats=5` to follow a log file. The way I read the man page, --max-unchanged-stats will cause tail to close and reopen the given file if it hasn't changed after 5 iterations. But after logrotate rotates

Re: [SLUG] tail and rotated log files

Hey Peter, sounds like you want tail -F log or tail --follow=name --retry log never used the max-unchanged-stats argument though - maybe it's used to delay the retry? wtf is an iteration in tail anyway? 5 poll's on the file?! On 1/15/07, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a script