Re: [MLUG] tail command & scripting

[Mikhail Kovalenko <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Ross, Matt wrote:

> I guess you could do "tail error_log -n 1 -f" in one shell window and watch
> the errors stack up.  I do this with ultraedit on my winbox, it asks to
> refresh the file when I go back to look at my code, updating the display of
> errors.  Of course, this only works because the server is indigo_perl and
> running on the winbox.
> 

When I'm logged in as root to play with services and daemons, I usually run 
'tailf /var/log/messages &' as the first command so that I stay notified of 
any strange behavior.

Tailf is, of course, an alias to 'tail -f'. Actually, sendmail used to come 
with its own tailf command but it seems to be the same thing as tail -f.

-- 
MK

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