Good afternoon. I have a background process running from which I would like, from time to time, to check the console output. I do not want to dedicate a console window to it, and since I start it from a script the console output is usually just lost to the akashic ethers.
I've not played with fifo buffers, but I'm wondering. Could I start the process with " > fifo-buffer.txt" and then when I want to check the output, run a "tail -f fifo-buffer.txt" for a few minutes? Since this is not a usual background process with log rotation and such, I don't want to fill my disk with a text file dump. But it would be nice to check in and make sure it's running without killing it and restarting. Suggestions? -- The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom is courage. - Thucydides _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/