Package: coreutils Version: 8.23-4 I am running "tail -f --retry /var/log/messages" in a terminal for >10 days. Since inotify is available the --max-unchanged-stats option is not set, as recommended in the man page.
Problem: tail ignored the log file rotation last weekend. lsof -p shows that it is watching /var/log/messages.1 now: % lsof -p 2905 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME tail 2905 hdunkel cwd DIR 0,40 20480 189573782 /home/hdunkel tail 2905 hdunkel rtd DIR 259,0 4096 2 / tail 2905 hdunkel txt REG 259,0 64232 657851 /usr/bin/tail tail 2905 hdunkel mem REG 259,0 1738176 1724334 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so tail 2905 hdunkel mem REG 259,0 140928 1724331 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.19.so tail 2905 hdunkel 0u CHR 136,1 0t0 4 /dev/pts/1 tail 2905 hdunkel 1u CHR 136,1 0t0 4 /dev/pts/1 tail 2905 hdunkel 2u CHR 136,1 0t0 4 /dev/pts/1 tail 2905 hdunkel 3r REG 259,0 141711 264950 /var/log/messages.1 tail 2905 hdunkel 4r 0000 0,11 0 8294 anon_inode Obviously the inotify support did not work for renamed files. Regards Harri
