Bug 179144

Summary:	inotail, a replacement for tail that uses inotify (new ebuild)
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pietro Franchi <tinaught>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Christoph Mende (RETIRED) <angelos>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	hiyuh.root
Priority:	High	Keywords:	EBUILD
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	ebuild for inotail 0.3

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