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| -rw-r--r-- | inotail.1 | 10 |
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@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ .\" Copyright (c) 2006 Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> .\" .\" You may distribute under the terms of the GNU General Public -.\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with the -.\" inotail distribution. +.\" License as specified in the file COPYING that comes with +.\" inotail. .pc .TH INOTAIL 1 "2006-08-13" "" "Inotify enhanced tail" @@ -19,9 +19,11 @@ inotail \- A fast and light version of tail using inotify .B inotail is a drop-in replacement for the 'tail' program found in the base installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the Inotify -infrastructure in recent version of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files +infrastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files in the follow mode (the '-f' option). Currently inotail is not fully compatible -to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might be in the future. +to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might be in the future. \fINote:\fR inotail +will not work on systems running kernels without Inotify. To enable Inotify , +please set CONFIG_INOTIFY=y in your kernel configuration and recompile it. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-c \fIN\fR |