Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a script that uses `tail -f --max-unchanged-stats=5` to follow a > log file. The way I read the man page, --max-unchanged-stats will cause > tail to close and reopen the given file if it hasn't changed after 5 > iterations. But after logrotate rotates the logfile, tail keeps watching > the old file, and doesn't seem to open the new one. So: > > - Am I missing something here? The man page doesn't mention any, but is > there I signal I can throw tail that'll make it reopen its file? > - Is there a better way, short of application-specific trickery, to keep > an eye on a log file? I'm considering having syslog log to a named pipe > as well and have my script read from that. But I'd like to hear other > suggestions for feeding a shell script from a system log.
According to my man page, you want -F or --follow=name --retry -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
