meant to send this to the list... ----- Forwarded message from Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----
also sprach Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima (on Fri, 07 Sep 2001 08:44:50AM +0800): > Here is a far more complicated perl script that make the "tail -f" part of the > actual application. It is designed to run as a daemon ie > # logtail /var/log/syslog & very nice, *but* -- and this is a problem i am currently struggling with... what if the syslog file gets rotated away by logrotate or other means? i don't particularly want to modify logrotate for this... how can you make a script detect that the name of the file of the inode it is following changes, and then to reattach to the new file/inode? ----- End forwarded message ----- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- with searching comes loss and the presence of absence: file not found.
