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I may be doing it wrong or not having the correct code but I usually like to have (in separate logins) a live print out of both my /var/log/maillog and /var/log/fail2ban and monitoring whatever is going on in those 2 programs but the ‘tail -f ‘file’ usually times out after 4 or 5 days.
Not really sure that’s the correct function for ongoing monitoring so I was wondering about any recommendations to continually monitor them live.
tail -f is the correct invocation. Just speculating, perhaps the logs are being rotated (/etc/logrotate.d) to cause the interruption? In which case I think the correct option is tail -F?
Edit: Firerat beat me to the post. I need to stop being distracted so easily with my own threads.
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