From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 10 09:30:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA05690 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:30:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from walleye.bsdi.com (root@walleye.BSDI.COM [134.195.15.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05672 for ; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:30:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from patm@walleye.bsdi.com) Received: from walleye.bsdi.com (patm@LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by walleye.bsdi.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA15206; Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:33:27 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199802101733.LAA15206@walleye.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: cjs@netbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: tail -F patches [BSDI-Support-Request #47019] In-reply-to: Curt Sampson's message of Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:17:37 PST. References: Cc: support@bsdi.com Reply-To: Pat McClanahan From: Pat McClanahan Organization: Berkeley Software Design, Inc. X-Request-Do: resolve Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:33:25 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Curt Sampson writes: > This was really popular with the NetBSD crowd, so I thought I'd > forward it on to you folks. > > The following patches to tail(1) add a -F option which will make > it continue to follow data appended to a file even if the file is > rotated by newsyslog(8) or something similar, or truncated. I'll pass this along to the engineers. ==================================================================== /\ Pat McClanahan Berkeley Software Design, Inc. /\/ \ patm@bsdi.com 5575 Tech Center Dr. #110 / \ \ 719-593-9445 Colorado Springs, CO 80919 ==================================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe hackers" in the body of the message