From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@linsec.ca>
Subject: Re: monitoring svlogd-produced logfiles
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:08:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060616190826.GV898@annvix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060616131807.GA3517@run.galis.org>
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* George Georgalis <george@galis.org> [2006-06-16 09:18:07 -0400]:
> >> OS=$(uname)
> >> case $OS in
> >> NetBSD|FreeBSD|Dragonfly|Darwin)
> >> alias t='tail -F'
> >> ;;
> >> Linux)
> >> alias t='tail --follow=name'
> >> ;;
> >> OpenBSD)
> >> alias t='tail -f'
> >> ;;
> >> esac
> >
> >Linux understand -F too.
>
> *sigh* not my linux
>
> tail -F /var/log/socklog/main/current
> tail: invalid option -- F
> Try `tail --help' for more information.
Interesting. Why distro and version of coreutils? -F is the equivalent
to --follow=name in newer coreutils; I don't know when it was added, but
I've been seeing it for a while.
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mysql> SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0;
Empty set (0.00sec)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-16 19:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-14 23:35 Vincent Danen
2006-06-14 23:40 ` Alex Efros
2006-06-16 11:03 ` George Georgalis
2006-06-16 11:08 ` Alex Efros
2006-06-16 13:18 ` George Georgalis
2006-06-16 19:08 ` Vincent Danen [this message]
2006-06-18 2:48 ` George Georgalis
2006-06-18 2:57 ` Alex Efros
2006-06-14 23:59 ` Alex Efros
2006-06-15 0:10 ` Vincent Danen
2006-06-15 0:25 ` Alex Efros
2006-06-15 3:32 ` Vincent Danen
2006-06-15 16:32 ` Vincent Danen
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