Turbotail Turbotail is a drop-in replacement for the original (GNU-)tail program which uses the SGI FAM daemon.
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Turbotail is a drop-in replacement for the original (GNU-)tail program which uses the SGI FAM daemon. Turbotail is a drop-in replacement for the original (GNU-)tail program which uses the SGI FAM daemon (which is included in all major Linux distributions like Debian) instead of polling every second(!).Due to the use of DNOTIFY, this tail should react instantly to file changes.Installation:maketo create the executable.make installto copy turbotail to /usr/binmake installreplaceto get the original tail renamed to /usr/bin/tail.org and have turbotail copied to /usr/bin/tailWhat's New in This Release:· turbotail now uses the FAM daemon so it should now also compile & run on other UNIX platforms as well

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