On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:20:48PM -0400, Greg Smith wrote:
> On Tue, 20 May 2008, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> >Tell others that this trx failed, maybe log a failure ? OTOH, this can
> >be implemented by a daemon that sits on "tail -f logfile | grep
> >ROLLBACK"
>
> In order to follow the log files like that successfully in many
> environments, you need to stay in sync as the underlying log file changes
> (it might rotate every day for example). Unfortunately it's not as simple
> as just using tail.
GNU tail provides the -F (or --follow=name) for just this reason.
Sam