Re: Logfile surveillance (Was: Re: LOTS of Orbs hits)

[Lorens Kockum]

On the qmail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lorens Kockum) wrote:
>>
>>Does anyone know of a way to monitor a file for occurences of
>>certain words?  I tried 'tail -f $FILE | grep $TRIGGERS | less +F'
>
>Leave off the "| less +F".

Sorry, that is not the problem.

>"less" is a pager. It won't display less than a page unless it hits
>EOF.

Option +F does that. It makes it equivalent to 'tail -f', with
the advantage that when something interesting comes up, you can
hit ^C and back up.

But the problem is the same without the 'less'.  Sorry for
confusing the issue.
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