LOGTAIL(8)                  System Manager's Manual                 LOGTAIL(8)



NAME
       logtail - cat the newly appended tail of a file

SYNOPSIS
       logtail file [offset-file]

DESCRIPTION
       Logtail  is  used to monitor files, such as log files, that have inter-
       esting information regularly appended to them.  The first  time  it  is
       run,  it  concatenates  the entire contents of file to standard output,
       and records the amount of data in  offset-file  (default  file.offset).
       On  subsequent invocations with the same arguments, only newly informa-
       tion will be copied to the standard output.

       If file has become smaller or has been replaced with another  that  has
       the same name, logtail assumes that the log has been rotated and resets
       the recorded offset to zero.

FILES
       *.offset
              Record of last-seen position in the monitored file.

AUTHOR
       Craig H. Rowland.
       Manual page by Geoff Kuenning (geoff@cs.hmc.edu).



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