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#15 Stops updating after long time
Hi - I am using the latest version 4.2.9 and tailing a file
on a remote networked drive. The file grows steadily,
to about 2-3 MB overnight. I am running tail all the time
watching it with no keywords or anything beyond
standard startup on Win2K. When I return after along
period (say 2-3 hrs) it appears to either have stopped
monitoring the file (no new lines appear) - remedied by
pausing and resuming the tail through the interface. Or,
it thinks the file has been deleted and says "waiting for
file ..." but the file has NOT been deleted. Pausing and
resuming again fixes this, but when a file grows
erratically, you cannot tell how frequently you have to
pause/resume!
One final thing - the link is relatively far away (over a
VPN, broadband, but latency may sometimes be screwy
over Net).
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That's an interesting bug, and one I've not seen before.
Could it be that the link was severed, and so Tail thinks that
the file has disappeared?
I'll investigate how the code deals with laggy and intermittent
connections.
Paul.