Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm seeing some really weird problems on my system. I don't know if > they're at all related, but I'll report them both in the same email, in > case they are. > > 1) tail -f stops working - I see the tail of the file, but it fails to > refresh when content is added to the file. What on earth could be > causing this? This is tail from coreutils - nothing fancy, no inotify > dependency, just simple polling of the file!
----8<---- > > Anyone have any ideas of where I can look to try to track this stuff > down? > > Celejar I also noticed this the other day. tail -F seems to work as I expected tail -f to. I'm using sid, 2.6.30-2 $ tail --version tail (GNU coreutils) 7.5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org