Re: monitoring svlogd-produced logfiles

[Vincent Danen <vdanen@linsec.ca>]

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* Vincent Danen <vdanen@linsec.ca> [2006-06-14 21:32:04 -0600]:

> > > BTW, I think I sent the response on the "tail -F" thing to you and not
> > > the list... to summ, I did try "-n 0 -F" and it didn't follow.  Could be
> > > a swatch thing tho... I'll have to try it again and see if it still
> > > doesn't work.  If it doesn't, I still need to find an alternative to it,
> > > so any suggestions are welcome.
> > 
> > Yep. To summ my reply :) I suggest using script-wrapper around tail to
> > a) force needed params for tail
> > b) debug which param swatch try to use when running tail (without hard
> > things like strace)
> 
> Well, I can see what swatch is doing just by executing ps... I can see
> that it calls it with the right args.  I'll see tomorrow if it picks up
> the new ./current file after it rotates (about another 300k left before
> it rotates).

well, using "tail -n 0 -F" seems to work.  So it must have been the
other option "--max-unchanged-stats=3" that was causing grief.

Thanks again for the mental kicks.

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