On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 10:24 AM, Martyn Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Martyn Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Hey Tshepang, >>>> >>>> Thanks for mentioning this again. I don't think it is a good idea to >>>> append to a log when the indexer or daemon is started. I think it is >>>> better to start from scratch. If not, people will assume the top of the >>>> file is the start of the log when it may not be. >>> >>> In such a case how about doing the same for 'tracker-indexer.log' for >>> consistency's sake? It currently gets appended to and not started from >>> scratch. >> >> OK, I thought we did the same in the indexer too. >> >>> By the way is there a way to follow that log fine without re-running >>> 'tail -f' every restart? >> >> Hmm, I thought it worked by just keeping the command running. If not, >> perhaps the --retry switch works. I have never tried it though. > > I just tried and it doesn't work really. Thanks anyways...
I should have read my man page better: I did use 'tail --retry --follow=name' instead of 'tail --follow=name --retry' which is the reason it did not work. Now I'm happy... -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
