--On Sunday, April 10, 2005 12:08 -0700 SeaSoft Systems <seasoft at west.net> wrote: > The command I used was > > $ tail -f /var/log/system.log > > The -f flag keeps tail adding log records to the bottom of the window as > they show up. Try the -F (big 'F') option if you don't want to restart tail after the log file is rotated by the default /etc/daily maintenance script. See the tail man page for a description of that option. -sjk