Re: Log file monitoring - retail?

["Daniel J. Gregor Jr." <dj () gregor com>]

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?

OpenBSD's "tail" program does this, and I'd have to bet that some of
the other *BSDs and maybe Linux also do this.

Here's the source:
        http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/tail


        - djg