i want to look at a logfile while it's written - but tail -f only shows me some lines and then ends.
It works on my computer with the tail command of cygwin, but i'd like to get rid of cygwin.
Does anyone have the same problems or does it work on your system ?
T:\ptc\Windchill\logs>C:\Programme\GnuWin32\bin\tail -f MethodServer-20051210-055028.log
Di 12/13/05 11:16:06: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: START OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order D219 roof check fixture update ***
Di 12/13/05 11:16:06: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: END OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order D219 roof check fixture update ***
Di 12/13/05 11:16:06: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: ***START OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Release Center Reinforcement with fo
Di 12/13/05 11:16:06: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: END OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Release Center Reinforcement with form
Di 12/13/05 11:16:08: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: START OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Service Part Link for Sunshade - Dew
Di 12/13/05 11:16:08: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: END OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Service Part Link for Sunshade - DewLS
Di 12/13/05 11:16:08: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: START OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Improve front edge wrap ***
Di 12/13/05 11:16:08: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: END OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Improve front edge wrap ***
Di 12/13/05 11:16:09: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: START OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Revise trim lace to include a welded
Di 12/13/05 11:16:09: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: ***END OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Revise trim lace to include a welded b
C:\Programme\GnuWin32\bin\tail: MethodServer-20051210-055028.log: Bad file descriptor
C:\Programme\GnuWin32\bin\tail: no files remaining
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i want to look at a logfile while it's written - but tail -f only shows me some lines and then ends.
It works on my computer with the tail command of cygwin, but i'd like to get rid of cygwin.
Does anyone have the same problems or does it work on your system ?
T:\ptc\Windchill\logs>C:\Programme\GnuWin32\bin\tail -f MethodServer-20051210-055028.log
Di 12/13/05 11:16:06: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: START OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order D219 roof check fixture update ***
Di 12/13/05 11:16:06: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: END OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order D219 roof check fixture update ***
Di 12/13/05 11:16:06: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: ***START OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Release Center Reinforcement with fo
Di 12/13/05 11:16:06: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: END OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Release Center Reinforcement with form
Di 12/13/05 11:16:08: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: START OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Service Part Link for Sunshade - Dew
Di 12/13/05 11:16:08: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: END OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Service Part Link for Sunshade - DewLS
Di 12/13/05 11:16:08: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: START OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Improve front edge wrap ***
Di 12/13/05 11:16:08: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: END OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Improve front edge wrap ***
Di 12/13/05 11:16:09: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: START OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Revise trim lace to include a welded
Di 12/13/05 11:16:09: WfUserWorkQueuePollingThread: ***END OF Sync on Activities completed of Change Order Revise trim lace to include a welded b
C:\Programme\GnuWin32\bin\tail: MethodServer-20051210-055028.log: Bad file descriptor
C:\Programme\GnuWin32\bin\tail: no files remaining
finally i copied the tail.exe out of the windows2003 resource kit into my gnuwin/bin directory
It's allready mentioned in the bug database -- you can forget my posting