On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:20:48PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> 
> >Tell others that this trx failed, maybe log a failure ? OTOH, this can 
> >be implemented by a daemon that sits on "tail -f logfile | grep 
> >ROLLBACK"
> 
> In order to follow the log files like that successfully in many 
> environments, you need to stay in sync as the underlying log file changes 
> (it might rotate every day for example).  Unfortunately it's not as simple 
> as just using tail.

GNU tail provides the -F (or --follow=name) for just this reason.


  Sam

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