bug#9812: Problem with "tail -f" on GPFS filesystem // coreutils package

2011-10-20 Thread Martial-externe BORNET
Good afternoon, Could you please add the following line to the src/fs.h file : # define S_MAGIC_GPFS 0x47504653 and add the following line to the switch() of the fremote() function in the src/tail.c file, in the coreutils package : case S_MAGIC_GPFS: or do you prefer me to send you a patch fo

Re: problem with tail

2005-04-18 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Anquijix Schiptara wrote: >I often use tail to see, what's being logged. After tail is runnin a while, >it doesnt update the output anymore and I have to restart the command. >Whats the reason? The logfile is being rotated, and you didn't use tail's -F flag? Cheers, Phil

problem with tail

2005-04-18 Thread Anquijix Schiptara
Hi there! I often use tail to see, what's being logged. After tail is runnin a while, it doesnt update the output anymore and I have to restart the command. Whats the reason? May this be a bug? Thanks beforehand for help Anquijix _ D

Problem with tail

2003-08-14 Thread Fritz_Schenk
The problem I have with tail manifests itself when the total number of bytes in a file exceeds 2147483648. Thank you___ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils

Re: Problem with tail

2003-08-14 Thread Paul Eggert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > $ tail --version > tail (textutils) 2.0.21 That's a fairly old version. I have no problem with the coreutils 5.0 tail on Debian: 22-mae $ tail -n 1 big bar 23-mae $ ls -l big -rw-rw-r--1 eggert eggert 4294967363 2003-08-11 18:50 big 24-mae $ un

Re: Problem with tail

2003-08-14 Thread Bob Proulx
Paul Eggert wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > $ tail --version > > tail (textutils) 2.0.21 > > That's a fairly old version. I have no problem with the coreutils 5.0 > tail on Debian: I have definitely used 2.0.21 on large files previously. While old I don't think that is the root cause of