Re: My 10 liner alert log monitoring WORKING shell Script !!! Comments Please !!!!

  • From: "Radoulov, Dimitre" <cichomitiko@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 19:52:22 +0100

You can not worry about a daemon restart if you use 'tail --follow=name
alertSID.log'.

What version of tail you're referring to? -f and --follow[={name|descriptor}] are synonyms (checked for tail (coreutils) 4.5.3) and not available for the commercial versions (checked for SunOS 5.8 Generic 111225-02 and tail.c $Date: 2004/06/03 02:56:22 $Revision: r11.11/4 PATCH_11.11 (PHCO_27138) for HP-UX B.11.11 ).

      -f, --follow[={name|descriptor}]
output appended data as the file grows; -f, --follow, and --fol-
             low=descriptor are equivalent

May be you wanted to say -retry, available on some tail versions (Linux):

      --retry
keep trying to open a file even if it is inaccessible when tail starts or if it becomes inaccessible later -- useful only with
             -f

or

      -F     same as --follow=name --retry


Which could be the solution.


Regards
Dimitre
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