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| -rw-r--r-- | README | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | inotail.1 | 4 |
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@@ -18,11 +18,12 @@ Requirements License ------- -inotail is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License Version 2. -You can find the full text in the file LICENSE in the source tree of inotail. +inotail is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 +or later. You can find the full text in the file LICENSE in the source tree of +inotail. The files inotify.h and inotify-syscalls.h were taken from the source tree of the Linux kernel and slightly altered. Both are licensed under the terms of the -GNU General Public License v2. +GNU General Public License version 2. -- Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch> @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ .pc .TH INOTAIL 1 "2006-08-13" "" "Inotify enhanced tail" .SH NAME -inotail \- A fast and light version of tail using inotify +inotail \- A fast and lightweight version of tail using inotify .SH SYNOPSIS .B inotail [OPTION]... [FILE]... @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ option). Standard tail polls the file every second by default while inotail listens to special events sent by the kernel through the inotify API to determine whether a file needs to be reread. \fINote:\fR inotail will not work on systems running a kernel without inotify. To enable inotify, please set -CONFIG_INOTIFY=y in your kernel configuration and recompile it. +CONFIG_INOTIFY=y in your Linux kernel configuration and recompile it. .PP Currently inotail is not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might be in the future. |