On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:34:29AM -0700, James Paige wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 10:16:51AM -0700, [email protected] > wrote: > > teeemcee > > 2009-05-22 10:16:51 -0700 (Fri, 22 May 2009) > > 316 > > Fix something that been annoying me forever: the uselessness of > > c/g_debug.txt. These files are now deleted when you quit if they don't > > contain anything interesting. They are capped at 2MB. If they exist when > > you open Game/Custom, the previous contents are appended to > > c/g_debug_archive.txt, which is capped at 128kB. > > While I like what you did here, this totally breaks the only method I > had to monitor these files in real-time while playing. > > I always run: > > tail -f ?_debug.txt &
Ah! False alarm! I read the manual for the tail command and discovered that I can run: tail --follow=name ?_debug.txt & to make it track the file by name instead of by file handle. So now it works perfectly in spite of deleting and recreating the debug files. --- James _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list [email protected] http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
