From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/1171 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vincent Danen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general Subject: Re: monitoring svlogd-produced logfiles Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 13:08:26 -0600 Organization: Annvix Message-ID: <20060616190826.GV898@annvix.org> References: <20060614233508.GP898@annvix.org> <20060614234004.GH8706@home.power> <20060616110303.GB4804@run.galis.org> <20060616110806.GN20474@home.power> <20060616131807.GA3517@run.galis.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="St2/ERGQ86R4QrrE" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1150484954 25093 80.91.229.2 (16 Jun 2006 19:09:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 19:09:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-1407-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Fri Jun 16 21:09:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14]) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FrJgk-00022J-MN for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2006 21:09:03 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 12936 invoked by uid 76); 16 Jun 2006 19:09:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 12930 invoked from network); 16 Jun 2006 19:09:23 -0000 Original-To: supervision@list.skarnet.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060616131807.GA3517@run.galis.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.x/OS X 10.4.x X-PGP-Key: http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc X-URL: http://annvix.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 68.149.37.7 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: vdanen@annvix.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on hades.annvix.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=6.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 (built Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:29:36 -0700) X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on hades.annvix.org) Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:1171 Archived-At: --St2/ERGQ86R4QrrE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * George Georgalis [2006-06-16 09:18:07 -0400]: > >> OS=3D$(uname) > >> case $OS in > >> NetBSD|FreeBSD|Dragonfly|Darwin) > >> alias t=3D'tail -F' > >> ;; > >> Linux) > >> alias t=3D'tail --follow=3Dname' > >> ;; > >> OpenBSD) > >> alias t=3D'tail -f' > >> ;; > >> esac > > > >Linux understand -F too. >=20 > *sigh* not my linux >=20 > tail -F /var/log/socklog/main/current=20 > tail: invalid option -- F > Try `tail --help' for more information. Interesting. Why distro and version of coreutils? -F is the equivalent to --follow=3Dname in newer coreutils; I don't know when it was added, but I've been seeing it for a while. --=20 {FEE30AD4 : 7F6C A60C 06C2 4811 FA1C A2BC 2EBC 5E32 FEE3 0AD4} mysql> SELECT * FROM users WHERE clue > 0; Empty set (0.00sec) :: Annvix - Secure Linux Server: http://annvix.org/ :: --St2/ERGQ86R4QrrE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEkwGqLrxeMv7jCtQRAmbFAJ9TtH9dLCoH+4MZkAquZUaMCJ2QBgCfedQS ZmHCNaBTEVYHYXMvDmVERPE= =QjO0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --St2/ERGQ86R4QrrE--