Re: [SLE] tail -f doesn't work on a smbfs mount

* Chavez Gutierrez, Freddy (fchavez@intercorp.com.pe) [020701 19:46]:

Then I want to watch a log generated by Internet Information Server (IIS) that grows continually: tail -f /logs/zzz.txt

I can see the last lines in file zzz.txt the first time, but I don't get the new lines that appear in such file. From any windows station I have no problem seeing the file zzz.txt updated.

This might just be some fstat or smb weirdness instead of a bug. Try tail --follow=/logs/zzz.txt so that tail watches the name of the file and not the fd. -- -ckm