[Logcheck-devel] Bug#406973: logtail misses lines in rotated file

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Nicolas Boullis 2007-01-15 <20070115110250.GA1867 at kheops.system.ecp.fr>
> The attached patch allows to set an alternate logfile that logtail tries
> to use as the old logfile if the inode has changed.
> It can be used as:
>   logtail -f /var/log/syslog -a /var/log/syslog.1

It would be nice if the "other" filename could be figured out
automatically, for example with logrotate's "dateext" or savelog's -d
option, the filename is not predictable. (Just scan the whole dir and
look for the file with the right inode.)

Christoph Berg
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