From: "George Georgalis" <george@galis.org>
Subject: Re: monitoring svlogd-produced logfiles
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 22:48:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060618024851.GB758@run.galis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060616190826.GV898@annvix.org>
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 01:08:26PM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote:
>* 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.
Debian Woody (internal... migrating to BSD)
$ tail --version
tail (GNU textutils) 2.0
// George
--
George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator <IXOYE><
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-18 2:48 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
2006-06-18 2:48 ` George Georgalis [this message]
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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