On Sun, Jun 04, 2000 at 08:54:34AM -0400, Jerry Human wrote:
| When I use the command /usr/bin/tail -f, I get an error stating that
| the dir
| /usr/share/fonts/default/TrueType does not exist. The command freezes
| and nothing else happens. Previously on other installs of RH 6.2 I would
| get a running report of what was happening resulting from a command
| executed in another VD.
Hmm. Better find out if that is a error from tail or actually the output from
tail (i.e. maybe the log you're watching has that in it?)
Try:
tail -f the_logfile >/dev/null
does the error disappear? If so, it's part of the logfile. If not, tail
really is doing something bizarre, and it's time to get out strace:
strace tail -f logfile >/dev/null
and watch for bogus accesses to font info.
Cheers,
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