#986913 colortail: Option to keep trying to open a file if it is inaccessible

Package:
colortail
Source:
colortail
Description:
log colorizer that makes log checking easier
Submitter:
Andreas Schmidt
Date:
2021-04-14 07:39:03 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#986913#5
Date:
2021-04-14 07:29:14 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I've recently found your package and now use colortail instead of tail from
coreutils. However, there is one feature from tail I really miss: the ability
to keep watching changes to a logfile even if the it has been rotated away and
replaced with a new copy.

tail has the option "-F" (equivalent to "--follow --retry") that does that.
Would you please consider adding something like this to colortail as well?

With best regards

Andreas