Re: Current log files when rotating?

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:46:14PM -0500, Greg Smith wrote:
> strftime would both work I guess, those just seemed a little heavy (was
> hoping for an "alias"-sized answer) to figure out something that the
> server certainly knows.

it's not nice, but it works:
alias pgtail='/bin/ls -1 /var/log/postgresql/postgresql*log | tail -n 1 | xargs tail -f'

of course it has some assumptions:
1. your logs are in /var/log/postgresql/ directory (easy to change)
2. your logs are named in such way that sorting them alphabetically will
sort them chronologically (i.e. %Y-%m-%d or something similar) (not easy
to change)

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