Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 11:33:25 -0600 From: Pat McClanahan <support@bsdi.com> To: cjs@netbsd.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: support@bsdi.com Subject: Re: tail -F patches [BSDI-Support-Request #47019] Message-ID: <199802101733.LAA15206@walleye.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Curt Sampson's message of Tue, 10 Feb 1998 09:17:37 PST. References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.980210090527.5139A-100000@cynic.portal.ca>
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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.
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