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RE: tail -f problem
- From: "Scott Alexander" <salexander at tepik dot com>
- To: "Cygwin" <cygwin at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:20:04 -0800
- Subject: RE: tail -f problem
I've read the archives (now that I found it) about other people posting
about this. However, this does not change the fact that linux's version of
tail works plenty fine with viewing IIS logfiles vs. Cygwin's version of
tail.
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Smith [mailto:matts@bluesguitar.org]
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 10:39 AM
To: Cygwin
Cc: Scott Alexander
Subject: Re: tail -f problem
This is not the fault of tail, rather IIS. Search the archives if you're
interested why.
cheers,
-Matt Smith
> With cygwin's tail, the output is not quite the same as the linux version
of
> tail. With Cygwin's version, I will get output with tail -f, but the
> updates aren't "realtime" as the linux version -- the updates are barely
> shown at all, if ever. Here are the different methods I used to try and
> parse the IIS log file:
> Thanks,
> -Scott
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