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)