On Wed 05 Jun 2019 at 22:25:07 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > Since upgrading to stretch, my syslog is being spammed by freshclam, > clamav, and spamd. These has their own logs in wheezy, so syslog was how > I kept track of the hardware. > > So syslog is growing rapidly and gets rotated in just a day or so, and > that means a "tail -fn xxx" watching it is stuck looking at the old > file, whereas I could just leave it run for a couple months and > the "tail" would also remain current but now I am lucky to get 3 days > before the display is hung again I'd like to fix both problems if > possible. > > How on stretch?
I wasn't aware things had changed since … . I use tail -F, but adding --retry is another way. Cheers, David.