Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Confused: 'tail -f' how can this happen??? | Date | Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:37:10 -0600 | From | Reg Clemens <> |
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OK, I dont understand this at all. I was debugging another problem, and had a 'tail -f' running on my maillog file. It showed data down to the present, namely 15:18:18
Something had gone by fast enough that I brought the maillog up in an editor but IT only showed data down to 14:02:16
Looking at the 'ls' of /var/log, the maillog file shows a write date of 14:02.
If I do a 2nd tail -f, it too stops at 14:02.
What is going on with the file system to cause the bizare behaviour? Why cant I see ALL the data in maillog, or why could I see it only once?
Confused. -- Reg.Clemens reg@dwf.com
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