[syslog-ng]pulling data from a file

Brad Arlt arlt@cpsc.ucalgary.ca
Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:02:57 -0600


On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 12:32:39PM -0500, Matt Okeson-Harlow wrote:
> this is all well and good, a fifo works just fine,
> only problem is that cnr rolls the log files over itself...
> any ideas on how to get a tail -f to reset and start reading the new file?

tail won't.  You would normally restart tail.  You could just put the
needed commands in your log rolling script.
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