[SOLVED] How do I escape, exit, quit monitoring after running: sudo tail -f /var/log/auth.log

linuxisnew2me · 09-08-2020, 06:27 PM

Hello,

I'm toubleshooting an SSH connection and ran:

sudo tail -f /var/log/auth.log

but I don't know how to escape back out to the normal command line.

HappyTux · 09-08-2020, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by linuxisnew2me

Hello,

I'm toubleshooting an SSH connection and ran:

sudo tail -f /var/log/auth.log

but I don't know how to escape back out to the normal command line.

Use the CTRL + C key at the same time.

syg00 · 09-08-2020, 10:01 PM

q (for quit) should work in many *nix commands. Else <Ctrl>-<C> is always a good fallback.

scasey · 09-08-2020, 10:36 PM

I can confirm that q doesn’t work to break out of a tail -f (—follow). Ctrl+c is required. Probably because the -f is routing the tail output to STDOUT, so STDIN is not available to the command.