ftail

• Here's another tail variation I liked better

• I use Dan Bernstein's supervise system to run system services like the mail daemons

• The logs get written to a series of files whose names are dates

• The current log file is always in current

• When a log file is large enough, it is renamed and a new current is begun

• For the email logs, this happens every 24 hours or so

• tail -f current wil stop after 24 hours

• ftail current will notice when current is renamed, and start scanning the new file

• It runs forever

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