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Re: problem with tail


From: Philip Rowlands
Subject: Re: problem with tail
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:23:26 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Anquijix Schiptara wrote:

>I often use tail to see, what's being logged. After tail is runnin a while,
>it doesnt update the output anymore and I have to restart the command.
>Whats the reason?

The logfile is being rotated, and you didn't use tail's -F flag?


Cheers,
Phil




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