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E2TAIL(1) User commands E2TAIL(1) NAME e2tail - a basic version of the tail command for an ext2 filesystem SYNOPSIS e2tail [options] file DESCRIPTION The e2tail(1) command implements a basic version of the tail(1) com- mand. OPTIONS -n num_lines The number of lines to display -f Output appended data as the file grows. This is inode depen- dent, so if the file is renamed, it will keep checking it. -F Output appended data as the file grows. This is file name de- pendent, so if the file is renamed, it will check on any new files with the same name as the original. This is useful for watching log files that may be rotated out occasionally. This was requested by a person in the computer security field for monitoring 'honeypot' type machines. -s sleep_interval The number of seconds to sleep before checking if the file has grown while in 'follow' mode. The default is 1. EXAMPLES Check `/var/log/messages` on `/dev/sdc1` every 10 seconds e2tail -s 10 -F /dev/sdc1:/var/log/messages SEE ALSO e2tools(7), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2cp(1), e2rm(1), e2mv(1). AUTHOR The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>. This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Linux 2020-02-05 E2TAIL(1)
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