Re: [leafnode-list] Can fetchnews un-buffer stdout?

[Matthias Andree <ma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lloyd Zusman schrieb am Samstag, den 13. Januar 2001:

> But because the stdout isn't buffered, I can't do a meaningful `tail
> -f' on my `fetchnews.log' file to monitor its output in real time.
> When I do this, I get huge blobs of data filling my log file every
> 15-30 seconds when things are running fine.  But when there's some
> sort of problem or slowness on the part of `fetchnews', I can't see
> what's happening to it by monitoring the log, due to this unbuffered
> output.

There is something else going on. stdout is line buffered by default.
Try Perl's File::Tail. What OS is this? Some BSD?

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