Re: script to tail latest logfile in a directory?

[Dave Sill]

"Scott D. Yelich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Um...  so is the trigger a new file has been created

Yes.

>or no more input is
>being put into the file? Each one of those begs a question...  the first
>is, do you want to "tail" or "cat" each and every new file that is
>generated

Yes. Cyclog keeps a set of at most N log files, each with a preset
maximum size. In order to "tail" a cyclog log, you need to tail the
most recent file in the log directory.

>and the other is "just when do you know that no more input has
>been received?" It wouldn't be all that difficult to write a command
>that came close to doing those although they seem arbitrarily complicated.

I've already posted the program, and it's not all that complicated.

-Dave