47 lines
1.3 KiB
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47 lines
1.3 KiB
Groff
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.TH E2TAIL 1 "March 2, 2005"
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.\"
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.SH NAME
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e2tail \- a basic version of the tail command for an ext2 filesystem
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.\"
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B e2tail
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.RI [ options ] " file"
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.\"
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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The \fBe2tail\fP command implements a basic version of the tail command.
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.\"
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B \-n \fInum_lines\fP
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The number of lines to display
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.TP
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.B \-f
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Output appended data as the file grows. This is inode dependent, so if the
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file is renamed, it will keep checking it.
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.TP
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.B \-F
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Output appended data as the file grows. This is file name dependent, so if
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the file is renamed, it will check on any new files with the same name as the
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original. This is useful for watching log files that may be rotated out
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occasionally. This was requested by a person in the computer security field
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for monitoring 'honeypot' type machines.
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.TP
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.B \-s \fIsleep_interval\fP
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The number of seconds to sleep before checking if the file has grown while
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in 'follow' mode. The default is 1.
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.\"
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR e2tools (7),
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.BR e2ln (1),
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.BR e2ls (1),
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.BR e2mkdir (1),
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.BR e2cp (1),
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.BR e2rm (1),
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.BR e2mv (1).
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.\"
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.SH AUTHOR
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The \fBe2tools\fP were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.
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.PP
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This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>,
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for the Debian project (but may be used by others).
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