10.06.2019 20:48, Carlos E. R. пишет:

Hi,

I have a bunch of terminals running "tail -f /some/logfile" (directly from the terminal without bash). The problem is that when the logfile is rotated, it does not catch the "new" log. I have to terminate that tail and start another.

How could I automate this, another tail program?

(on some tail -f terminals I have, rotate works automatically)

To be exact, I use this:

xfce4-terminal \ --tab --command="/home/cer/bin/terminales_one /var/log/warn" --title="* Warn *" \ --tab --command="/home/cer/bin/terminales_one /var/log/messages" --title=messages \

Where terminales_one is:

while true ; do tail -f -n 1000 $1 ; sleep 5 ; done

Maybe this is the trick:

-f, --follow[={name|descriptor}] output appended data as the file grows;

an absent option argument means 'descriptor'

if you try to read man page to the end it gives you solution. It even explicitly mentions log rotation ...

-F same as --follow=name --retry

So use -F instead?

I'm going to try that, but it may take days till I notice if it works or not.