NAME

       e2tail - a basic version of the tail command for an ext2 filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       e2tail [options] file

DESCRIPTION

       The e2tail command implements a basic version of the tail command.

OPTIONS

       -n num_lines
              The number of lines to display

       -f     Output appended data as the file grows.  This is inode dependent, so if the file is
              renamed, it will keep checking it.

       -F     Output appended data as the file grows.  This is file name  dependent,  so  if  the
              file is renamed, it will check on any new files with the same name as the original.
              This is useful for watching log files that may be rotated out  occasionally.   This
              was  requested by a person in the computer security field for monitoring 'honeypot'
              type machines.

       -s sleep_interval
              The number of seconds to sleep before checking if  the  file  has  grown  while  in
              'follow' mode.  The default is 1.

SEE ALSO

       e2tools(7), e2ln(1), e2ls(1), e2mkdir(1), e2cp(1), e2rm(1), e2mv(1).

AUTHOR

       The e2tools were written by Keith Sheffield <sheff@pobox.com>.

       This manual page was written by Lucas Wall <lwall@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but
       may be used by others).

                                          March 2, 2005                                 E2TAIL(1)