179144 – inotail, a replacement for tail that uses inotify (new ebuild)

Bug 179144 - inotail, a replacement for tail that uses inotify (new ebuild)

Summary: inotail, a replacement for tail that uses inotify (new ebuild)

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement
Assignee:	Christoph Mende (RETIRED)

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Keywords:	EBUILD

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Reported:	2007-05-19 20:43 UTC by Pietro Franchi
Modified:	2007-06-25 00:08 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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ebuild for inotail 0.3 (inotail-0.3.ebuild,436 bytes, text/plain) 2007-05-19 20:43 UTC, Pietro Franchi	Details
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Description Pietro Franchi 2007-05-19 20:43:05 UTC

Hi,

this is an ebuild for inotail (http://distanz.ch/inotail/). I would suggest for it the same category as turbotail (sys-apps) as they do pretty much the same thing.

"inotail is a replacement for the 'tail' program found in the base installation of every Linux/UNIX system. It makes use of the inotify infrastructure in recent versions of the Linux kernel to speed up tailing files in the follow mode (the '-f' 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. Currently inotail is not fully compatible to neither POSIX or GNU tail but might be in the future."

I hope the ebuild is ok, tested on x86 :-)

Cheers,
Pietro

Comment 1 Pietro Franchi 2007-05-19 20:43:58 UTC

Created attachment 119739 [details]
ebuild for inotail 0.3

Comment 2 Christoph Mende (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-06-25 00:08:27 UTC

heh, seen this bug after I committed my own ebuild, thanks anyways