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How to do a `tail -f` of log rotated files?
On a long running system I usually have a terminal with
$ tail -f /var/log/kern.log
or something like this open.
But from time to time I have to restart such command because no new messages are ...
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Keep log file size fixed without logrotate
Is there any way to keep file size of log file fixed without rotating it by a new empty file and deleting (or archiving) the old file. For example, if I set log file maximum size to 1MB, after the ...
