[X-Unix] Re: MAC address swap conundrum

Scott J. Kramer x-unix at sjk.us
Sun Apr 10 16:18:03 PDT 2005


--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



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