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Re: logging Q's for stretch

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: logging Q's for stretch
Date	2019-06-06 20:50 +0200
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On Thursday 06 June 2019 08:27:28 am Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 10:25:07PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > So syslog is growing rapidly and gets rotated in just a day or so,
> > and that means a "tail -fn xxx" watching it is stuck looking at the
> > old file,
>
> That's what tail -F (capital F) is for.

Humm,, obviously I haven't read the man page recently.  Thanks for the 
reminder.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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logging Q's for stretch Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-06 04:30 +0200
  Re: logging Q's for stretch David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-06-06 05:20 +0200
  Re: logging Q's for stretch Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-06-06 14:30 +0200
    Re: logging Q's for stretch Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-06-06 20:50 +0200

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