Re: Log file monitoring - retail?

["Craig H. Rowland" <crowland () psionic com>]

There is a program called 'logtail' in my logcheck package that is a clone
of this tool, in fact the whole package is a clone of the
"frequentcheck.sh" script from Gauntlet. You can find it here:

http://www.psionic.com/abacus/abacus_logcheck.html

-- Craig



On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 carson () tla org wrote:

> Once upon a time, I heard of a utility called retail. It was basically
> 'tail -f' that noticed if a new file had replaced the old and
> re-opened it (log file rotation, for example).
>
> However, I can now find no reference to this. Does anyone know it's
> whereabouts, or if something equivilant exists?
>
> -- 
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