I mounted a remote drive on my mac, smb://some-windows-host/some-folder.
I thought I'd be able to do a 'tail -f' on a file on this mounted drive, but it seems the changes aren't coming through. What's wrong?
Do I have to enable someting?
Thank you so much.
JS.
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
Kind of late, but for anyone that sees this in the future.
It's possible that the process that is modifying your file is creating a new file with the same filename. The 'tail -f' command reads the file based on it's 'file descriptor'. When the file gets rewritten by the other process, then the file descriptor changes.
So to track a file by it's name instead of it's descriptor, you should use a capital 'F', like 'tail -F'.
Kind of late, but for anyone that sees this in the future.
It's possible that the process that is modifying your file is creating a new file with the same filename. The 'tail -f' command reads the file based on it's 'file descriptor'. When the file gets rewritten by the other process, then the file descriptor changes.
So to track a file by it's name instead of it's descriptor, you should use a capital 'F', like 'tail -F'.
Why is tail unix command not working properly on a mounted drive?
