NAME¶
e2tail - a basic version of the tail command for an ext2 filesystem
SYNOPSIS¶
e2tail [
options]
file
DESCRIPTION¶
The
e2tail command implements a basic version of the tail command.
OPTIONS¶
- -n num_lines
- The number of lines to display
- -f
- Output appended data as the file grows. This is inode
dependent, so if the file is renamed, it will keep checking it.
- -F
- Output appended data as the file grows. This is file name
dependent, 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.
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).