From: Reg Clemens <reg@dwf.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Confused: 'tail -f' how can this happen???
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:37:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807252137.m6PLbAkj008998@deneb.dwf.com> (raw)
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.
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Reg.Clemens
reg@dwf.com
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2008-07-25 21:37 Reg Clemens [this message]
2008-07-28 10:52 ` Athanasius
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