You can:
1) Check the timestamp of the file
2) Use 'tail -f filename' and it will constantly
update whenever something is added.
Jeff "Shippy" Shipman E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Computer Science Major ICQ: 1786493
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Homepage: http://www.nmt.edu/~shippy
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Carlos Toledo wrote:
> Hello, i want to ask you more than a problem with gtk, a problem with C.
> I want to do a messages console that shows the file /var/log/messages but
> I have the problem that this file grows with all messages and when I have
> read it, there is more information on this file. How can I do to know when
> is new information whithout read the file all time or looking the size?
>
> Thanks for your help
> (sorry for my horrible english)
>
>
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