TAILF(1)
NAME
tailf - follow the growth of a log file
SYNOPSIS
tailf file
DESCRIPTION
tailf will print out the last 10 lines of a file and then
wait for the file to grow. It is similar to tail -f but
does not access the file when it is not growing. This has
the side effect of not updating the access time for the
file, so a filesystem flush does not occur periodically
when no log activity is happening.
tailf is extremely useful for monitoring log files on a
laptop when logging is infrequent and the user desires
that the hard disk spin down to conserve battery life.
BUGS
An option could be provided to print out the last n lines
instead of the last 10.
AUTHOR
This program was written by Rik Faith faith@cs.unc.edu
and may be freely distributed under the terms of the GNU
General Public License. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARANTY
for this program.
SEE ALSO
syslogd(8) apmd(8)