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When you're tailing a file and that file gets renamed then it's normal that the tail fails. What you could do is write a script that restart the tail command when inactive for a certain amount of time.
-f, --follow[={name|descriptor}]
output appended data as the file grows; -f, --follow, and --follow=descriptor are equivalent
--follow=name
will follow the file by name, so if the file is moved, closed, and reopened during rotation, you'll start seeing the new file.
If -f, --follow and --follow=descriptor are equivalent than what will --follow=name will do different?
Instead, also from the manpage
Code:
-F same as --follow=name --retry
--retry
keep trying to open a file even when it is or becomes inaccessible; useful when following by name, i.e., with --follow=name
No problem! You're welcome. Since you pointed out to the man page and I hardly use tail (only when troubleshooting something) I read through the man page myself and came across that one.
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