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Title: Tail -f -F /var/log/mail/smtp/current
Post by: luv2ride on February 14, 2008, 02:29:33 PM

Tail seems to drop the connection when monitoring this log file. Is there a way to keep this alive? I have tried both -f & -F with and without piping it thru tai64nlocal

tail -f /var/log/mail/smtp/current |tai64nlocal

Thanks

Title: Re: Tail -f -F /var/log/mail/smtp/current
Post by: dcc24 on February 19, 2008, 04:02:42 PM

This log is rotated every five minutes (depending on how frequent you run toaster-watcher.pl in your cron). That would explain why you suddenly stop seeing output. After it is rotated you have to run tail again on the latest "current" file.

Cheers

Title: Re: Tail -f -F /var/log/mail/smtp/current
Post by: matt on April 18, 2008, 12:47:59 PM

read the man page for tail. Pay special attention to the -F option.

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