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Does multitail follow the inode or the file name by default?

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For logrotated files one usually uses tail -F instead of tail -f to follow the log file contents. Does multitail(1) automatically follow the name instead of the inode (which likely changes with the log rotation)? I sifted through the documentation and also searched on the web, but wasn't able to come up with a conclusive answer. ---------- Thanks to the accepted answer I found that the man page does mention the option I wanted, but uses the term "descriptor" instead of "inode". So this question and the answer should be the glue for the next person researching the topic. -f Follow the following filename, not the descriptor. --follow-all For all files after this switch: follow the following filename, not the descriptor.
Asked by 0xC0000022L (16938 rep)
Jan 30, 2013, 08:48 PM
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