On Thu, 27 Jan 2005, Jeremy Harris wrote:
> You could run a continuous "tail -f mainlog | grep '<='".
> But this runs into problems at log switchover time.
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> How does eximon manage?
A very good question that I think has turned up a bug!
Eximon does it by remembering the inode of the log file, and checking to
see whether it has changed. When I wrote the code, I didn't know that
there were file systems that do not use inodes.
I believe that reiserfs doesn't have inodes. Is anybody running Exim
with log files being written to such a file system? If so, what does
Eximon do when you rename a log file?
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