-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2017-10-18 at 14:31 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Wednesday 2017-10-18 14:27, Carlos E. R. wrote:
cer@Telcontar:~> rpm -ql util-linux-2.28-12.6.1.x86_64 | grep tailf /usr/bin/tailf /usr/share/bash-completion/completions/tailf /usr/share/man/man1/tailf.1.gz cer@Telcontar:~>
""" tailf is deprecated. It may have unfixed bugs and will be removed from util-linux in March 2017. Nowadays it's safe to use tail -f (from coreutils), in contrast to what the original documentation below says. """
Oh. Apparently my previous reply to this got lost. I started using tailf many years ago because some documentation said that "tail -f" caused hard disk activity even when there was nothing new to display, and "tailf" did not. Has this changed? - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlnui7cACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VkLACfTPnFWZgGQeU231DOqpBV0y4v dxcAn3ZFIPIXzbExkcoBg7GNa0lll5cB =+zUF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org